Caucasus paradigms : anthropologies, histories and the making of a world area /

Other Authors: Grant, Bruce,, Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Münster, DE : Lit, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Bruce Grant and Lale Yalçin-Heckmann
  • 2. Love Khevsur style : the romance of the mountains and mountaineer romance in Georgian ethnography / Paul Manning
  • 3. Brides, brigands, and fire-bringers : notes towards a historical ethnography of pluralism / Bruce Grant
  • 4. The forgotten complexities of the North Caucasus jihad / Georgi Derluguian
  • 5. The history of sovereignty in Azerbaijan : a preliminary survey of basic approaches / Shahin Mustafayev
  • 6. Mythologizing the remote past for political purposes in the North Caucasus / Murtazali Gadjiev, Philip L. Kohl and Rabadan G. Magomedov
  • 7. Language dreamers : race and the politics of etymology in the Caucasus / Rebecca Gould
  • 8. Dancing around the mountain : Armenian identity through rites of solidarity / Levon Abrahamian
  • 9. Prehistories of globalization : Circassian identity in motion / Seteney Shami
  • 10. Are Greeks Caucasian? : the multiple boundaries of Pontic Greek life in southern Russia / Anton Popov
  • 11. Recrafting Georgian medicine : the politics of standardization and tuberculosis control in postsocialist Georgia / Erin Koch
  • 12. Openings and closures : citizenship regimes, markets and borders in the Caucasus / Lale Yalçin-Heckmann
  • 13. Notes on the making of a world area / Sergei Arutiunov.