Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 294 p)
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ill., 2 maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520214765
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0520214773
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9780520921320
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9780520214767
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index
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Cover; 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. Designing Women; 7. The Dis-membered Border; Epilogue: The Tree of Unity; Glossary; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520214774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Where the World Ended : Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
Language:
English
