 | Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Culture and Society after Socialism)
By Mathijs Pelkmans
ISBN: 9780801473302
Published: 2006
Number of Pages: 256
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Description: 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. |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
2006007157 - LC control Number:
2006007157International Standard Book Number:
0801444403:
0801444403 (cloth : alk. paper):
0801473306:
0801473306 (pbk. : alk. paper):
9780801444401 (cloth : alk. paper):
9780801473302 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Terms of availability:
$59.95Other Standard Identifier
- Standard number or code:
9780801444401 - Standard number or code:
9780801473302Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail:
COUTTSGeographic Area Code:
a-gs---:
a-tu---Library of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
DK - Classification number:
DK679.A37 - Item number:
P45 2006Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
22 - Classification number:
947.58Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Pelkmans, Mathijs, - Dates associated with a name:
1973-Title Statement
- Title:
Defending the border : - Remainder of title:
identity, religion, and modernity in the Republic of Georgia / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Mathijs Pelkmans.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
Ithaca, N.Y. : - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
Ithaca, NY : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Cornell University Press, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
2006.Projected Publication Date:
0607Physical Description
- Extent:
xvi, 240 p. - Extent:
xvi, 240 p. : - Other physical details:
ill., maps ; - Dimensions:
23 cm.Series Statement/Added Entry - Title:
Culture and society after socialismSeries Statement:
Culture & society after socialism:
Culture & society after socialism.:
Culture and society after socialismBibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234) and index. - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Formatted Contents Note
- Miscellaneous information:
pt. I. - Miscellaneous information:
pt. II. - Miscellaneous information:
pt. III. - Title:
A divided village on the Georgian-Turkish border -- - Title:
A note on transliteration and translation -- - Title:
Ancestors and enemies in conversion to Christianity -- - Title:
Caught between states -- - Title:
Channeling discontent -- - Title:
Conclusion: borders in time and space. - Title:
Defending Muslim identities -- - Title:
Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- - Title:
Introduction: Christian incursions -- - Title:
Introduction: divided village -- - Title:
Introduction: temporal divides and muddled space along the former Iron Curtain -- - Title:
Introduction: treacherous markets -- - Title:
Lost relatives -- - Title:
Mobilizing cultural stuff with boundaries -- - Title:
Postsocialist borderlands -- - Title:
Terms and abbreviations -- - Title:
The making and transformation of the frontier -- - Title:
The social life of empty buildings --Local Notes:
SUNY Shared CollectionSubject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Group identity - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Post-communism - Geographic subdivision:
Ajaria. - Geographic subdivision:
Georgia - Geographic subdivision:
Georgia (Republic)Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
- Geographic name:
Ajaria (Georgia) - Geographic name:
Turkey - General subdivision:
Boundaries - General subdivision:
Ethnic relations. - General subdivision:
History. - General subdivision:
Religion. - Geographic subdivision:
Ajaria - Geographic subdivision:
Georgia - Geographic subdivision:
Georgia (Republic) - Geographic subdivision:
TurkeySeries Added Entry - Uniform Title
- Uniform title:
Culture and society after socialism - Uniform title:
Culture and society after socialism.
