Where the World Ended

Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

Автор: Daphne Berdahl

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of California Press

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When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drasticall...

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Автор

Daphne Berdahl

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1999

страници

307

EAN

9780520214774

ISBN

0520214773

Enbook ID

04616376

Издател

University of California Press

Теглоt

470

Размери

152 x 227 x 23

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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 person hood, 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.

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