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245 00 $aWalling, boundaries and liminality :$ba political anthropology of transformations /$cedited by Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Benṭa and Joan Davison.
264 1 $aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $a1 online resource (xvii, 203 pages)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aContemporary liminality ;$v7
520 $a"Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration, and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating insights from archaeology and anthropology. Such an approach, far from being simply academic, has crucial contemporary relevance, as its focus on origins helps to locate the essential dynamics of this practice, and provides a rare external position from which to view the phenomenon as a transformative exercise, with the area walled serving as an artificial womb or matrix. The modern world, with its ingrained ideas of borders, nation states and other entities, often makes it is very difficult to gain a critical distance and detachment to see beyond conventional perspectives. The unique approach of this book offers an antidote to this problem. Cases discussed in the book range from Palaeolithic caves, the ancient walls of Göbekli Tepe, Jericho, and Babylon, to the foundation of Rome, the Chinese Empire, medieval Europe and the Berlin Wall. The book also looks at contemporary developments such as the Palestinian wall, Eastern and Southern European examples, Trump's proposed Mexican wall, the use of Greece as a bulwark containing migration flows, and the transformative experience of voluntary work in a Calcutta hospice. In doing so, the book offers a political anthropology of one of the most fundamental yet perennially problematic human practices: the constructing of walls. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and political theory"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWalling Europe : the perverted linear transformation / Agnes Horvath -- The meaning and meaninglessness of building walls / Arpad Szakolczai -- Oppressive walling : Babel and the inverted order of the world / Marius Benṭa -- Walling as encystation : a socio-historical inquiry / Glenn Bowman -- Border-crossing and walling states in humanitarian work in Kolkata / Egor Novikov -- Liminality and belonging : the life and the afterlives of the Berlin Wall / Harald Wydra -- The Great Wall of China does not exist / Erik Ringmar -- Breaching fortress Europe : the liminal consequences of the Greek Migrant Crisis / Manussos Marangudakis -- Imaginary walls and the paradox of strength / Arvydas Grišinas -- Identities frozen, societies betrayed, communities divided : the US-Mexican Wall / Joan Davison.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 13, 2018).
650 0 $aBoundaries$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aBorderlands$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aLiminality.
650 6 $aFrontières$xAspect social.
650 6 $aRégions frontalières$xAspect social.
650 6 $aLiminalité.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$xPublic Policy$xCultural Policy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$xAnthropology$xCultural.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$xPopular Culture.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBoundaries$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00837081
650 7 $aLiminality.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00998872
655 4 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aHorváth, Ágnes,$d1957-$eeditor.
700 1 $aBența, Marius I.,$eeditor.
700 1 $aDavison, Joan Doverspike,$eeditor.
830 0 $aContemporary liminality ;$v7.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio15133930$zTaylor & Francis eBooks
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