Elements for a Theory of the Frontier

"Frontier" is included in the general category of "limit" (limes: a road bordering a field). But what is at the origin of limit, frontier? An authority, a power that can exercise "the social function of ritual and social significance of the line, the limit whose ritual legit...

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Main Author: Raffestin, Claude (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1986
In: Diogenes
Year: 1986, Volume: 34, Issue: 134, Pages: 1-18
Further subjects:B Girard, René (1923-2015)
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