Cultural Change And The New Europe Perspectives On The European Community

 Politicians can negotiate currency disputes, redraw national boundaries, and raise trade tariffs but what unforeseen problems may be caused by the melding of societal boundaries and the lowering of cultural tariffs? Originating from a range of nationalities and ethnic groups, the contributors to this volume focus on cultural and social processes o

Preface -- An Anthropology of the European Community -- Widening Versus Deepening the European Community: The Political Dynamics of 1992 in Historical Perspective -- The Incidental City: Urban Entities in the EC of the 1990s 1 -- Corsican Identity and a Europe of Peoples and Regions -- The Periphery of Pleasure or Pain: Consumer Culture in the EC Mediterranean of 1992 -- Farming Styles and Intermediate Structures in the Wake of 1992 -- Rural Communities Without Family Farms? Family Dairy Farming in the Post – 1993 EC -- The Face Behind the Door: European Integration, Immigration, and Identity -- Frontiers Go but Boundaries Remain: The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide -- The Future of European Boundaries: A Case Study -- Cultural Values and European Financial Institutions -- The Question of European Nationalism