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oapen-20.500.12657-326922021-11-12T16:34:51Z The Dynamics of Cultural Borders Kannike, Anu Tasa, Monika material culture memory war religion border landscape Bronze Age Finland Hymy Reindeer Soviet Union bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTE Semiotics / semiology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTD Oral history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAX History of religion bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography 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. 2016-05-31 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:16:48Z 2020-04-01T14:16:48Z 2016 book 609474 OCN: 1030816806 2228-060X (print);2228-4117 (online);2228-411 9789949770830 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32692 eng Approaches to Culture Theory application/pdf Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 609474.pdf http://www.tyk.ee/politology-and-sociology/00000011808 University of Tartu Press 10.26530/OAPEN_609474 10.26530/OAPEN_609474 fed215d9-bf7f-466c-a9f3-5510b4847c64 9789949770830 6 260 Tartu open access
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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.
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