Author

Publication

1998 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

85,250 words, Guess

Page Count

341 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads2153477

Classifications

  • DDC306.2
  • LCCGN492 .B674 1998

Description

In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders. Borneman employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues which have become central with the end of the Cold War. Despite living in an era when group legitimacy depends on the ability to approximate national form, we have instead been witnessing the dissolution of coherent identities and nations. Ethnographically, Borneman focuses on these transformations in Germany during the disintegration and collapse of the socialist project, concentrating on relations between the first and the second Worlds.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • SUNY series in national identities

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