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National identity on the Portuguese‐Spanish frontier
Author(s) -
SILVA LUÍS
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12449
Subject(s) - frontier , portuguese , identity (music) , ethnography , face (sociological concept) , peninsula , national identity , gender studies , ethnology , sociology , anthropology , genealogy , political science , geography , history , social science , aesthetics , law , politics , archaeology , art , linguistics , philosophy
This article gives an ethnographic account of national identity in the day‐to‐day lives of villagers who face one another across the Portuguese‐Spanish frontier along the Guadiana River on the Iberian Peninsula. The article shows that despite European integration, the symbolic boundaries of culture and identity in these nation states persist.