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Where the world ended : re-unification and identity in the German borderland / Daphne Berdahl.

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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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Main Author: Berdahl, Daphne, 1964-2007
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Germany (East) > Boundaries > Case studies.
Germany > History > Unification, 1990 > Case studies.
Ethnology > Germany > Case studies.
Kella (Germany) > Case studies.
Kella (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Social change > Germany > Kella.
Boundaries.
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Social change.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Germany > Kella.
Case studies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Village on the Border
  • 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life
  • 3. Seventh Station
  • 4. Consuming Differences
  • 5. Borderlands
  • 6. Designing Women
  • 7. Dis-membered Border
  • Epilogue: The Tree of Unity.

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