Kevin Tuite

Included in this work are transliterations of the Georgian alphabet; an introductory chapter providing an overview of the Georgian people and their culture as well as a detailed presentation of the structure of folk poetry and its relation to music and dance; and explanatory notes accompanying the poems that furnish the reader with some of the ethnographic background needed to interpret the poems and understand the contexts in which they were composed.

An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry

Christine Jourdan

Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Language, Culture, and Society

Dee Ann Holisky

This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their field data to address problems of general linguistic interest, such as reflexivization. A number of papers look at the evidence for contact-induced change in multilingual areas. Some of the most exciting contributions to the collection represent significant advances in the reconstruction of the prehistory of such understudied language families as Northeast Caucasian, Tungusic and the baffling isolate Ket. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the indigenous languages of the former USSR, but also to historical and synchronic linguists seeking to familiarize themselves with the fascinating, typologically diverse languages from the interior of the Eurasian continent. Dee Ann Holisky is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs of the College of Arts & Sciences at George Mason University. She is the author of Aspect and Georgian Medial Verbs (Caravan Books, 1981) and of numerous articles on Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics. Kevin Tuite is Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Among his books are An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and Ethnolinguistics and Anthropological Theory (co-edited with Christine Jourdan; Montréal: Éditions Fides, 2003).

Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics

Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics

Florian Mühlfried

Tsypylma Darieva

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.

Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

Colin Renfrew

Denis Sinor

Michael Puett

Asko Parpola

E. J. W. Barber

J. P. Mallory

Werner Winter

Katheryn M. Linduff

Ann Taylor

Don Ringe

Douglas Q. Adams

Georges-Jean Pinault

Alexander Lubotsky

John Colarusso

Dolkun Kamberi

Dru C. Gladney

Chien wen Chen

C Scott Littleton

E. Bruce Brooks

Kenneth J. Hsü

Harold C. Fleming

Irene Good

Emwa C. Bunker

Colin Shell

Jianjun Mei

Ke Peng

Han Kangxin

Tongmao Zhao

Paolo Francalacci

William S-Y Wang

Penglin Wang

Libby Levison

Alexander Michailov

Tandy Warnow

Eric P. Hamp

Tzehtley C'hiou Peng

Perry A. Tourtellotte

Claudia Chang

Jeannine Davis Kimball

Fredrik T. Hiehert

Natalia I. Shishlina

Karl Jettmar

Dexiu He

Tao Shui

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Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No. 26 (inclusive of Two Volumes)

The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia

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