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Population aging --- Immigrants --- Vieillissement de la population --- Cultural assimilation --- Intégration --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Ethnology --- Turks --- National characteristics, Turkish. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnology - Germany. --- Turks - National characteristics, Turkish. --- Germany - Emigration and immigration.

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Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Taking the practices of everyday life in the divided Berlin as his point of departure, 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 Berlins residents with the official version of the lifecourse prescribed by the two German states. He examines the relation of the dual political structure to everyday life, the way in which the two states legally regulated the lifecourse in order to define the particular categories of self which signify Germanness, and how citizens experientially appropriated the frameworks provided by these states. Living in the two Berlins constantly compelled residents to define themselves in opposition to their other half. Borneman argues that this resulted in a de facto divided Germany with two distinct nations and peoples. The formation of German subjectivity since World War II is unique in that the distinctive features for belonging - for being at home - to one side exclude the other. Indeed, these divisions inscribed by the Cold War account for many of the problems in forging a new cultural unity.

Ethnology --- Berlin (Germany) --- Kinship --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Social life and customs --- Ethnology - Germany - Berlin. --- Kinship - Germany - Berlin. --- National characteristics, West German. --- National characteristics, East German. --- Berlin (Germany) - Social conditions. --- Berlin (Germany) - Economic conditions. --- Berlin (Germany) - Social life and customs. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- East German national characteristics --- West German national characteristics --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings