RT Book
T1 The Dynamics of Cultural Borders
T2 Approaches to Culture Theory
A1 Kannike, Anu
A1 Tasa, Monika
LA English
PP Tartu
PB University of Tartu Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1778611982
AB This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well as the experience and representation of physical, spiritual, imagined and symbolic borders. The authors provide perspectives on emerging and dissolving borders in the past and present. Special emphasis is placed on subjective perception by asking how borders are experienced and expressed at the level of the specific community or individual. Several articles tackle dramatic and controversial issues like war, conflict between different ideologies and cultures, and remembering. The authors also explore dialectical relations between culture, social relations and landscape, and the interplay of ideological constructions and material culture. The contributions are arranged into two sections focusing on two wider issues: how borders are drawn in landscape, religion and scientific discourse (Wandering borders), and how representations of cultural borders and border crossings have changed over time (Bordering ruptures: the dynamics of self-description). The authors of this volume come from various scholarly fields and offer innovative tools for expanding the concept of the border across disciplinary frames
SN 9789949770830
K1 Semiotics / semiology
K1 Oral History
K1 Archaeology
K1 History of religion
K1 Cultural Studies
K1 Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
K1 Human Geography