ABSTRACT
The narrative of the cultural community represents one edition of a society's imaginary. As it was illuminated with a multi-sited ethnography, this imaginary its origination, condition, and/or future emerges in geography books, novels, public debate literature, films, exhibitions, school essays, and other ethnographic arenas. In relation to different other imagined communities or relating the present to different other epochs of the self, the narrative helps a people remember its peculiarity, its past, and what is to come. It is through the crossing of borders that it is possible to draw them accurately. The crossing enables an experience of personal bordering, and of the association of the national with the personal. This is exactly what is so fascinating with the geographical and state border. Bordering is consequently employed in a multitude of arenas where decisions are made concerning who is or ought to be part of the community and with regard to inclusion and exclusion.
