flipendo (asker) Nov 16, 2006:

Σας ευχαριστώ όλους. Καλημέρα!

Andras Mohay (X) Nov 15, 2006:

Ευχαριστώ. Νομίζω ότι η πρότασή μου ταιριάζει στο είδος και το ήθος (και το ύφος) της γραφής :-))

flipendo (asker) Nov 15, 2006:

Παραθέτω ολόκληρη την παράγραφο. Το κείμενο έχει να κάνει με τα σύνορα, την ταυτότητα των λαών, προσωπική και πολιτιστική, τους πολιτισμούς που αναπτύχθηκα ή δεν αναπτύχθηκαν όντες περιορισμένοι μεταξύ συνόρων.

"This basic and pervasive concept is in fact the perfect transference of western nationalism visited upon non-western societies. Yet the truth known to practising anthropologists, long unrecorded in their acts of *** descriptive will ***, was things were never as simple, neat and tidy as that. Identity, personal and cultural, was more often a fluid continuum than the idealised cast in stone notions essential to theoretical anthropological study. Far from existing in splendid isolation, traditional societies and cultures were surrounded by others with whom they maintained sustained relations. Just as the idealised notions of how these societies and cultures operated within concentrated on observance of rules and neglected the common violation of rules, so their hermetically sealed borders were in fact porous."