Identities: time, difference and boundaries
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"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.
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- Full title :Identities : time, difference and boundaries / edited by Heidrun Friese.
Summary
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.
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- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782389804, 1782389806
- oclc:on1100887902
- Dewey Decimal:305.8
Table of Contents
Identity : desire, name, and difference / Heidrun Friese -- Identity and selfhood as a problématique / Peter Wagner -- Personal and collective identity / Jurg̈en Straub -- Identities of the West : reason, myths, limits of tolerance / Barbara Henry -- Remembering the other : knowledge and recognition in the exploration of Central Africa / Johannes Fabian -- The praxis of cognition and the representation of difference / Martin Fuchs -- Constructions of cultural identity and problems of translation / Shingo Shimada -- The performance of hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The "Jewess Pallas Athena" : horizons of selfconception in the 19th and 20th centuries / Barbara Hahn -- Collective identity as a dual discursive construction / Gerd Baumann -- Historical culture in (post-)colonial context : the genesis of national identification figures in francophone Western Africa / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- Identity as progress : the longevity of nationalism / Christian Geulen -- Culture and history in comparative fundamentalism / Emanuel Sivan.
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