Границата в антропологическа перспектива:акценти и преосмисляне на понятия
The Border in Anthropological Perspective: Conceptual Highlights and Redefinitions

Author(s): Magdalena Elchinova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: border; ethnic groups; identities; communities
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses certain aspects of the conceptualization of the border in Anthropology and, more broadly, in the Social Sciences. The border is viewed as a dynamic social construction. The focus is on the geopolitical borders – their spatiotemporal dimensions and their relations with the construction of political entities, ethnic groups and identities form the basis for the analysis. The major issues of discussion comprise the dialectics between space and social reality in constructing borders; the ambiguity and ambivalence of the border; the temporal dynamics of the border, i.e. the border as a process, practices, and procedures; the interplay between borders and communities.

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