Michael (Hrsg.) Rösler

Frontiers and Borderlands

Anthropological Perspectives

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Studies of frontiers and borderlands become crucial to understanding the predicament of humankind as we enter the 21st century. Borders do not only divide. They also connect and serve as interfaces of multicultural contact. They provide insights into our post-modern world in which globalization, diversity, border crossing and conditions of in-betweenness shape our experience. Old borders are contested and eradicated, and new ones - often forcibly - appear. This book questions what is at stake in contemporary invocations of real and figurative borders. Case studies from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia look at frontiers and borders as dis… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wendl, Tobias (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-631-35013-3
EAN: 9783631350133
Produktnummer: 19612513
Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 239 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.0 cm 329 g
Abbildungen: num. maps, 3 tab., 1 fig.
Gewicht: 329

Über den Autor

The Editors: Michael Rösler: Dr. phil., München. Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, University of Munich. Fields of research: Central Africa, economic and political anthropology, developmental and environmental studies. Fieldwork in Congo/Zaire. Publications on forager-farmer relations, agricultural development and ethnohistory. Tobias Wendl: Dr. phil., München. Filmmaker and researcher at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. Fields of research: West Africa, visual and cognitive anthropology, religion, arts and intercultural communication. Fieldwork in Togo and Ghana. Films and publications on the Mami Wata cult, spirit possession, ritual consciousness, and African photography.