Defending the Border : : Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia /

Defending the Border : : Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia / / Mathijs Pelkmans.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Pelkmans, Mathijs,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 tables, 2 maps, 10 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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