Sociology, World Politics, Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Diplomacy & International Relations, National Characteristics
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Shifting the focus of anthropology from discrete cultures to alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders, Borneman (anthropology, Cornell U.) employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues that have become central with the end of the Cold War. He particularly investigates the dissolution of coherent identities and nations at a time when a group's legitimacy depends on its ability to approximate a nation state, taking the transformations in Germany as a case study. Most of the ten essays have been published previously. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
January 31, 1998
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.
Pages
341
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780791435847