LEADER 03940nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910818687003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-29170-3 010 $a9786613291707 010 $a0-520-92132-1 010 $a0-585-12957-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520921320 035 $a(CKB)111004366721804 035 $a(EBL)801360 035 $a(OCoLC)43476577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271206 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215444 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271206 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281399 035 $a(PQKB)11687463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC801360 035 $a(DE-B1597)519976 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520921320 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366721804 100 $a19980402d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhere the world ended $ere-unification and identity in the German borderland /$fDaphne Berdahl 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley, CA $cUniversity of California Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-21476-5 311 0 $a0-520-21477-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps and Figures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Village on the Border --$t2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life --$t3. The Seventh Station --$t4. Consuming Differences --$t5. Borderlands --$t6. Design Women --$t7. The Dis-membered Border --$tEpilogue: The Tree of Unity --$tGlossary of Terms --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWhen the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. What happens to identity and personhood, she asks, when a political and economic system collapses overnight? How do people negotiate and manipulate a liminal condition created by the disappearance of a significant frame of reference? Berdahl concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life-including social organization, gender, religion, and nationality-in a place where literal, indeed concrete, borders were until recently a very powerful presence. Borders, she argues, are places of ambiguity as well as of intense lucidity; these qualities may in fact be mutually constitutive. She shows how, in a moment of headlong historical transformation, larger political, economic, and social processes are manifested locally and specifically. In the process of a transition between two German states, people have invented, and to some extent ritualized, cultural practices that both reflect and constitute profound identity transformations in a period of intense social discord. Where the World Ended combines a vivid ethnographic account of everyday life under socialist rule and after German reunification with an original investigation of the paradoxical human condition of a borderland. 606 $aEthnology$zGermany$vCase studies 606 $aSocial change$zGermany$zKella 607 $aGermany (East)$xBoundaries$vCase studies 607 $aGermany$xHistory$yUnification, 1990$vCase studies 607 $aKella (Germany)$vCase studies 607 $aKella (Germany)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aSocial change 676 $a341.4/2 700 $aBerdahl$b Daphne$f1964-2007.$01750168 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818687003321 996 $aWhere the world ended$94184733 997 $aUNINA