| Subversions of International Order: Studies in the Political Anthropology of Culture Contributor(s): Borneman, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791435830 ISBN-13: 9780791435830 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.2 |
| LCCN: 97-23444 |
| Series: Suny National Identities |
| Physical Information: 350 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders. Borneman employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues which have become central with the end of the Cold War. Despite living in an era when group legitimacy depends on the ability to approximate national form, we have instead been witnessing the dissolution of coherent identities and nations. Ethnographically, Borneman focuses on these transformations in Germany during the disintegration and collapse of the socialist project, concentrating on relations between the first and the second Worlds. |