Defending the Border : : Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia / / Mathijs Pelkmans.
This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since the...
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Pelkmans, Mathijs, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Defending the Border : Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia / Mathijs Pelkmans. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (256 p.) : 2 tables, 2 maps, 10 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture and Society after Socialism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Temporal Divides and Muddled Space along the Former Iron Curtain -- Part I. A Divided Village on the Georgian-Turkish Border -- Introduction: Divided Village -- 1. Caught between States -- 2. Mobilizing Cultural Stuff with Boundaries -- 3. Lost Relatives -- Part II. Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- Introduction: Christian Incursions -- 4. The Making and Transformation of the Frontier -- 5. Defending Muslim Identities -- 6. Ancestors and Enemies in Conversion to Christianity -- Part III. Postsocialist Borderlands -- Introduction: Treacherous Markets -- 7. Channeling Discontent -- 8. The Social Life of Empty Buildings -- Conclusion: Borders in Time and Space -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Through an exploration of three towns in the southwest corner of Georgia, all of which are situated close to the Turkish frontier, Mathijs Pelkmans shows how social and cultural boundaries took on greater importance in the years of transition, when such divisions were expected to vanish. By tracing the fears, longings, and disillusionment that border dwellers projected on the Iron Curtain, Pelkmans demonstrates how elements of culture formed along and in response to territorial divisions, and how these elements became crucial in attempts to rethink the border after its physical rigidities dissolved in the 1990s.The new boundary-drawing activities had the effect of grounding and reinforcing Soviet constructions of identity, even though they were part of the process of overcoming and dismissing the past. Ultimately, Pelkmans finds that the opening of the border paradoxically inspired a newfound appreciation for the previously despised Iron Curtain as something that had provided protection and was still worth defending. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Post-communism Georgia (Republic) Ajaria. Anthropology. Asian Studies. Sociology & Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801444401 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461767 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801461767 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801461767/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Temporal Divides and Muddled Space along the Former Iron Curtain -- Part I. A Divided Village on the Georgian-Turkish Border -- Introduction: Divided Village -- 1. Caught between States -- 2. Mobilizing Cultural Stuff with Boundaries -- 3. Lost Relatives -- Part II. Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- Introduction: Christian Incursions -- 4. The Making and Transformation of the Frontier -- 5. Defending Muslim Identities -- 6. Ancestors and Enemies in Conversion to Christianity -- Part III. Postsocialist Borderlands -- Introduction: Treacherous Markets -- 7. Channeling Discontent -- 8. The Social Life of Empty Buildings -- Conclusion: Borders in Time and Space -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Temporal Divides and Muddled Space along the Former Iron Curtain -- Part I. A Divided Village on the Georgian-Turkish Border -- Introduction: Divided Village -- 1. Caught between States -- 2. Mobilizing Cultural Stuff with Boundaries -- 3. Lost Relatives -- Part II. Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- Introduction: Christian Incursions -- 4. The Making and Transformation of the Frontier -- 5. Defending Muslim Identities -- 6. Ancestors and Enemies in Conversion to Christianity -- Part III. Postsocialist Borderlands -- Introduction: Treacherous Markets -- 7. Channeling Discontent -- 8. The Social Life of Empty Buildings -- Conclusion: Borders in Time and Space -- Bibliography -- Index |
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