Format:
1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
ISBN:
9780511607813
Content:
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. The ten anthropological case studies collected here describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. The frontier itself may be of great symbolic importance; in other cases the symbolism lies rather in the disappearance of the traditional border. A frontier may be above all a barrier against immigration, or the front line between hostile armies. It may reinforce distinctive identities on each side of it, or the frontier may be disputed because it cuts across national identities. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the book explores how cultural landscapes intersect with political boundaries, and ways in which state power informs cultural identity
Note:
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Nation, state and identity at international borders / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan --- State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Peter Sahlins --- A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures / William A. Douglass --- The 'new immigration' and the transformation of the European-African frontier / Henk Driessen --- Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of Empire / Michael Kearney --- National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system / Dan Rabinowitz -- Grenzregime (border regimes): the Wall and its aftermath / John Borneman --- Transcending the state?: gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe / A.P. Cheater --- Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery / Janet Carsten --- Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey / Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann --- Imagining 'the south': hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish-Syrian border / Martin Stokes
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-58315-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-58745-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Law
,
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Staatsgrenze
;
Ethnizität
;
Nationalismus
;
Fallstudiensammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511607813
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Wilson, Thomas M. 1951-
