Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

This is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlin's residents with the official versions prescribed by the two German states.John Borneman is the author of 'Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780521415897 and ISBN 0521415896.