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Autore: |
Berdahl Daphne <1964-2007.>
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Titolo: |
Where the world ended : re-unification and identity in the German borderland / / Daphne Berdahl
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Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, c1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina: | 341.4/2 |
Soggetto topico: | Ethnology - Germany |
Social change - Germany - Kella | |
Soggetto geografico: | Germany (East) Boundaries Case studies |
Germany History Unification, 1990 Case studies | |
Kella (Germany) Case studies | |
Kella (Germany) Social life and customs 20th century | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Village on the Border -- 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life -- 3. The Seventh Station -- 4. Consuming Differences -- 5. Borderlands -- 6. Design Women -- 7. The Dis-membered Border -- Epilogue: The Tree of Unity -- Glossary of Terms -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | When 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Where the world ended ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-29170-3 |
9786613291707 | |
0-520-92132-1 | |
0-585-12957-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818687003321 |
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