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Details

Additional authors

1. Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
2. Donnan, Hastings

Description

1. xi, 301 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Boundaries > Case studies
2. Ethnicity > Case studies
3. Nationalism Case studies
4. Nationalism
5. Frontières > Études de cas
6. Ethnicité > Études de cas
7. Nationalisme > Études de cas
8. 89.22 nationalism
9. Boundaries
10. Ethnicity
11. Ethnizität
12. Nationalismus
13. Staatsgrenze
14. Grensgebieden
15. Etnische betrekkingen
16. Nationale identiteit
17. Nationalism > Case studies
18. Borders
19. Minorities
20. Nationalism
21. Ethnicité > Cas, Études de
22. Nationalisme > Cas, Études de
23. Frontières
24. Territoire national
25. Régions frontalières > Cas, Etudes de
26. Anthropologie politique
27. Boundaries Case studies
28. Ethnicity Case studies
29. nationalisme
30. minderheden
31. minorities
32. politiek
33. politics
34. sociaal milieu
35. social environment
36. grenzen
37. internationale bewegingen
38. international movements
39. politieke partijen
40. political parties
41. sociografie
42. sociography
43. sociale situatie
44. social situation
45. grensoverschrijdend gebied
46. transboundaries
47. International Politics
48. Internationale Politiek

Genre/Form

1. Case Reports
2. Case studies
3. Fallstudiensammlung.
4. Études de cas.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain