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In Search of the Barbarians: Borders in Pain
Author(s) -
Seremetakis C. Nadia
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1996.98.3.02a00020
Subject(s) - panic , identity (music) , face (sociological concept) , history , point (geometry) , criminology , sociology , medicine , art , aesthetics , psychiatry , anxiety , social science , geometry , mathematics
Mobile populations of Albanians have made the Greek borders the site where identity is played out and defined. At the same time, media panic stories about disease crossing Greek frontiers point to the borders as infection: they leak not only people but contamination. Yet these borders are bidirectional, and create risks for the Albanians as well. Their continued migrations in the face of risk point to the borders as process. These are borders in pain, borders that ache and leak.