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Boundaries

• Author : Peter Sahlins
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 1989
• Genre : NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
• Pages : 376
• ISBN : 0520911210

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This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in the Cerdanya, a valley in the eastern Pyrenees divided between Spain and France in 1659. This study shuttles between two levels, between the center and the periphery. It connects the "macroscopic" political and diplomatic history of France and Spain, from the Old Regime monarchies to the national territorial states of the later nineteenth century; and the "molecular" history--the historical ethnography--of Catalan village communities, rural nobles, and peasants in the borderland. On the frontier, these two histories come together, and they can be told as one.

Blurred Boundaries

• Author : Bill Nichols
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release Date : 1994
• Genre : Social Science
• Pages : 187
• ISBN : 0253209005

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Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture.

International Maritime Boundaries

• Author : Jonathan I. Charney
• Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
• Release Date : 2005
• Genre : Law
• Pages : 920
• ISBN : 9789004144613

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This is the ultimate guide to international maritime boundaries. Its unique practical features include - systematic examination of all international maritime boundaries worldwide; - comprehensive coverage, including the text of every modern boundary agreement; - descriptions of judicially-established boundaries; - maps and detailed analyses of those boundaries; - expert papers examining the status of maritime boundary delimitations in each of the ten regions of the world; - papers from a global perspective analyzing key issues in maritime boundary theory and practice; and - a cumulative index for volumes I - V. These features make "International Maritime Boundaries" an unmatched comprehensive, accessible resource in the field.

Crossing Boundaries in Stephan Elliott s Priscilla Queen of the Desert

• Author : Stefan L Chle
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release Date : 2009-12
• Genre : Uncategorized
• Pages : 40
• ISBN : 9783640492459

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Constance (Fachbereich Anglistik - Amerikanistik), course: Australian Identity in Literature and Film, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with disparate notions of gender in Stephan Elliott's 1994 movie "Priscilla - Queen of the Desert" within the frame of a course on "Australian Identity in Literature and Film." The movie presents a variety of ways of "doing gender" Its is primarily concerned with conceptions of gender deviating from the usual male-female-dichotomy, i.e. the ones of two cross-dressing homosexual men and a male-to-female-transsexual as contrasted to stereotypical notions of masculinity and femininity. Those have to be taken into account as the entirety of gender identities really is a web of the utmost complexity with notions of male and female forming a centre around which the other conceptions of identity are grouped and on which they depend. Changes in the understanding of masculinity and/or femininity then are likely to disrupt the entire system and cause deviant sexual identities to change with them. My primary aim in this term paper then will be to compare the western/mainstream-Australian attitude towards diverging sexual identities such as transsexuality, homosexuality and transvestitism to the one of indigenous people such as the Aborigines and to explain why their attitudes towards it are so different.

Breaking Financial Boundaries

• Author : David M. Meerschwam
• Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
• Release Date : 1991
• Genre : Business & Economics
• Pages : 306
• ISBN : UCSD:31822006618987

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For generations government regulations and business traditions confined financial activities within national borders. Leaders and borrowers maintained relationships with domestic bankers, who offered little in the way of innovation or advantage. But the abolition of fixed exchange rates, along with hyper-inflation in the 1970s spelled the beginning of the end for this system. By the 1980s the financial game in the UK, Japan and USA was being played ith some important new rules, and by many new players. The old world of relationship banking had given way to financial transactions based upon price and product innovation.

Crossing Boundaries

• Author : Julie Thompson Klein
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release Date : 1996
• Genre : Erkenntnistheorie
• Pages : 281
• ISBN : 0813916798

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Boundary work studies examine how boundaries of knowledge are formed, maintained, broken down and reconfigured. This text investigates the claims, activities and institutional structures that define and legitimate interdisciplinary practices.