Social topologies (3/3) Border(lands)

In two previous posts, I introduced some considerations about the use of topology as a method in anthropology. The first of these presented conceptions of the body in relation to tattooing and the second offered a discussion of the notion of “house” as an analytic category. With this third post, I move up to the macro-level of borders between social or political entities. One key aspect of my interest in the question of borders and borderlands has to do with the issue of the outer limit of st..