Anthropology of Borders: work in progress

GRYGAR, Jakub. Anthropology of Borders: work in progress. 2006.

Basic information

Original name

Anthropology of Borders: work in progress

Name in Czech

Antropologie hranic: pracovní verze

Authors

GRYGAR, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

2006

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Uspořádání workshopu

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/06:00017891

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

anthropology; borders; power; culture; social memory

Tags

anthropology, borders, culture, power, social memory

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International impact

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Abstract

V originále

The workshop addressed three questions about state borders: How historically established must the borders be in order to have influence? How homogeneous – encapsulated by state borders – are national cultures in character? How does one account for the changing regulatory capacity of transnational ties in the contemporary world? The issue we raise in the book is how state borders and borderlands act and how they become taken-for-granted, how they perform, how they are negotiated, discussed, invented, and/or, at the same time, how they are undermined, dismantled, de-constructed, and bridged over. In three thematic panels – power of / at the borders, borderland memories, and borderland cultures – the workshop presented case studies from Polish-Belarusian, Polish-Ukrainian, Czech-German, and Czech-Polish-Slovak borders.

In Czech

The workshop addressed three questions about state borders: How historically established must the borders be in order to have influence? How homogeneous – encapsulated by state borders – are national cultures in character? How does one account for the changing regulatory capacity of transnational ties in the contemporary world? The issue we raise in the book is how state borders and borderlands act and how they become taken-for-granted, how they perform, how they are negotiated, discussed, invented, and/or, at the same time, how they are undermined, dismantled, de-constructed, and bridged over. In three thematic panels – power of / at the borders, borderland memories, and borderland cultures – the workshop presented case studies from Polish-Belarusian, Polish-Ukrainian, Czech-German, and Czech-Polish-Slovak borders.