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Anthropology
Author_Hastings Donnan
Author_Thomas M. Wilson
Border Landscapes
Border People
Border Studies
Borders
BSE
BSE Crisis
BTA
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comparative border anthropology
Comparative Social Science
Cross-border Shopping
Crossborder
Crossborder Cooperation
Cultural exchange
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ethnic identity
Everyday Practices
Hopeful Entrants
Immigration studies
International Borders
Ira Cease Fire
Local International Relations
Mexican Players
Nationalism
North American Free Trade Agreement
Northern Irish Border
Northern Irish Peace Process
Political Anthropology
Provisional IRA
ritual power dynamics
smuggling economies
Spanish French Border
state formation
Studied Border Areas
Subversive Economy
symbolic boundaries
transnationalism
Product details
- ISBN 9781859732465
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows for the analysis of 'self' and 'other'. In representing invisible demarcations between nations and peoples who may have much or very little in common, borders exert a powerful influence and define how people think as well as what they do. Without borders, whether physical or symbolic, nationalism could not exist, nor could borders exist without nationalism. Surprisingly, there have been very few systematic or concerted efforts to review the experiences of nation and state at the local level of borders. Drawing on examples from the US and Mexico, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Spain and Morocco, as well as various parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, this timely book offers a comparative perspective on culture at state boundaries. The authors examine the role of the state, ethnicity, transnationalism, border symbols, rituals and identity in an effort to understand how nationalism informs attitudes and behaviour at local, national and international levels. Soldiers, customs agents, smugglers, tourists, athletes, shoppers, and prostitutes all provide telling insights into the power relations of everyday life and what these relations say about borders. This overview of the importance of borders to the construction of identity and culture will be an essential text for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, nationalism and immigration studies.
Hastings Donnan The Queen's University of Belfast Thomas M. Wilson Professor of Anthropology,Binghamton University
