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Where the world ended : re-unification and identity in the German borderland / Daphne Berdahl.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berdahl, Daphne, 1964-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Germany--Case studies.
- Ethnology.
- Social change--Germany--Kella.
- Social change.
- Germany (East)--Boundaries--Case studies.
- Germany (East).
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990--Case studies.
- Germany.
- Kella (Germany)--Case studies.
- Kella (Germany).
- Kella (Germany)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613291707
- 9781283291705
- 1283291703
- 9780520921320
- 0520921321
- 9780585129570
- 0585129576
- OCLC:
- 43476577
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