Abstract:Michel Agier's Borderlands first appeared in French in 2013 under the title La Condition cosmopolite: L'anthropologie a`l'epreuve du pie`ge identitaire (La Découvertee, 2013), and in 2015 the book was translated into both Portuguese and Spanish. 1 The book is a farreaching exploration of the problem of the border and some of its possible meanings for the analysis of contemporary societies. It applies the classical tools of anthropological and ethnographical research to reflect on the formation of the 'banal' e… Show more
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