Belonging in the Two Berlins : Kin, State, Nation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication year: 1992
ISBN: 0521427150
Description:
This is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlin's residents with the official versions prescribed by the two German states.
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