Identities

Identities: time, difference, and boundaries

by Assmann, Aleida Friese, Heidrun

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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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Title Statements

  • 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1782389806, 9781782389804
  • oclc:ocn651750386
  • LC Classification:HM716
  • 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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Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Ethnicité Ethnicity Ethnische Identität Group identity Gruppenidentität HISTORY -- Historiography History -- Philosophy Ich-Identität Identité (Psychologie) Identité collective Identiteitsbeginsel Identity (Psychology) Kulturelle Identität Nationalbewusstsein Nationalism Nationalisme Politische Identität Social Identification SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race…

Writers

Assmann, Aleida Friese, Heidrun

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