| Description |
vi, 128 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. An anthropology of frontiers / Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson -- Ch. 2. Borderline questions: people and space in West Africa / Elizabeth Tonkin -- Ch. 3. Local Arabesk, the Hatay and the Turkish-Syrian border / Martin Stokes -- Ch. 4. Reflections on the place of the border in contemporary Sikh affairs / Joyce Pettigrew -- Ch. 5. 'Baguette heads' and 'spiked helmets': children's constructions of nationality at the German-French border / Tomke Lask -- Ch. 6. Symbolic boundaries and 'real' borders on the Portuguese-Spanish frontier / William Kavanagh -- Ch. 7. Cultural divergence and durability: the border, symbolic boundaries and the Irish gentry / Amanda Shanks -- Ch. 8. Symbolic dimensions to the Irish border / Thomas M. Wilson |
| Analysis |
Boundaries |
| Notes |
Outgrowth of the annual conference of the Anthropological Association of Ireland, held in May 1992 in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- Congresses.
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Boundaries -- Congresses.
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Political anthropology -- Congresses.
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| Author |
Wilson, Thomas M.
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Donnan, Hastings.
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Anthropological Association of Ireland.
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| LC no. |
93050652 |
| ISBN |
0819194530 |
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0819194549 paperback alkaline paper |
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