Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

by Daphne Berdahl

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520214773
• ISBN13: 9780520214774
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"