Where the World Ended Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

Name: Where the World Ended Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
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ISBN: 9780520214774

ISBN-10: 0520214773

ISBN-13: 9780520214774

Edition: 1999

Authors: Daphne Berdahl

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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 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…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 307
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English