Where the world ended : re-unification and identity in the German borderland / / Daphne Berdahl

• Autore: Berdahl Daphne <1964-2007.>
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II