{"product_id":"where-the-world-ended-daphne-berdahl-9780520214774","title":"Where the World Ended: Re-Unification \u0026 Identity German Bo","description":"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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerdahl 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. \u003ci\u003eWhere the World Ended\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daphne Berdahl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520214773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520214774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Daphne Berdahl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946694050047,"sku":"9780520214774","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0f61547f-cd3b-4eb2-aa84-f2c87a8d2059.jpg?v=1681514602","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/where-the-world-ended-daphne-berdahl-9780520214774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}