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