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Where the World Ended

Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

By: Daphne Berdahl

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Where the World Ended

Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

By: Daphne Berdahl

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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Univ of California Press

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0520921321

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9780520921320

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

Memory, Consumption, Germany

By: Daphne Berdahl

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On the Social Life of Postsocialism

Memory, Consumption, Germany

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Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.

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Indiana University Press

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0253221706

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9780253221704

Where the World Ended

Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

By: Daphne Berdahl

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Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

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Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religion.

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0520214765

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9780520214767

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

Memory, Consumption, Germany

By: Daphne Berdahl

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Memory, Consumption, Germany

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We Are Now a Nation

Croats Between 'Home and Homeland'

By: Daphne Winland

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We Are Now a Nation

Croats Between 'Home and Homeland'

By: Daphne Winland

The Yugoslav War of Succession had untold ramifications for those living in the embattled region. What often goes overlooked, however, is the impact that the war had on people from the former Yugoslavia who were living abroad. We are Now a Nation considers the effect that the war and the independence of Croatia had on Croatian diaspora-homeland relations. In doing so, it confronts complex questions of ideology, nostalgia, social suffering, nationalism, and identity politics as manifested in the relationship between diaspora and homeland Croats. Daphne Winland draws upon extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research in both Toronto and Croatia from 1992 to the present, exploring the problematic nature of Croatian identity. The occasion of Croatian independence, she suggests, resulted in the emergence of a politics of 'desire' and 'disdain,' which further complicated efforts to define 'Croatness' (Hrvatstvo) both at home and abroad. The idea of the Croatian homeland has become, therefore, an ambiguous space of identification, a source of either conflict and tension or unity and pride, a place to remember, to forget, or to return to. The first book-length examination of North American Croatian diaspora responses to war and independence, We are Now a Nation highlights the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary debates about identity, politics, and place.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442669543

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Book's by Daphne Berdahl

Where the World Ended

Where the World Ended

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

Where the World Ended

Where the World Ended

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

We Are Now a Nation

We Are Now a Nation

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