ISBN:
0203168607
,
9780203168608
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 226 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
International library of anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version Rural families in Soviet Georgia
DDC:
306.8/5/094795
Keywords:
Rural families
;
Rachin Range Region (Georgia) Social life and customs
;
Rachin Range Region (Georgia) Rural conditions
Description / Table of Contents:
""BookCover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Note on Transliteration ""; ""Introduction""; ""(I) The area""; ""1 Abari Village""; ""2 Ratcha Province""; ""3 Soviet Georgia""; ""(II) The Ethnographic Context""; ""(III) Fieldwork and Academic Problems""; ""1 The Georgian Villager in the Soviet Context""; ""(I) Notions Concerning the State""; ""(II) Administration""; ""(III) Legalities""; ""(IV) Economic Aspects""; ""(V) National Culture""; ""(VI) The Villagers� Views""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2 The Social and Economic Organization of Domestic Units""""(I) Definition""; ""(II) The Ideal""; ""(III) Variations""; ""1 Migration""; ""Jobs""; ""The Lure of the Towns""; ""Status and Occupation""; ""2 Demographic Factors""; ""(IV) The Tasks of Domestic Units""; ""1 Identity, Moral Support and Residence""; ""2 The Provision of Food in a Socially Acceptable Way""; ""3 Sex, Procreation and Socialization""; ""4 The Collective Wealth of Domestic Units""; ""5 Inheritance""; ""6 The Domestication of Religious Life""; ""(V) The Organization of Domestic Units""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1 The Distribution of Authority""""2 The Division of Labour in the Home""; ""3 Obtaining and Spending Income""; ""4 Collective Wealth for Suitable Heirs""; ""5 The Pressures to Maintain Domestic Harmony""; ""(VI) Domestic Units and the Village""; ""1 The Reputation of the Village""; ""2 Domestic Units and the Outside World: the Ritual of Hospitality""; ""3 Kinship and Marriage ""; ""(I) Kinship""; ""1 �Blood� Kin""; ""2 Affines""; ""(II) Marriage""; ""1 Marriage Negotiations""; ""2 Abduction and Elopement""; ""3 The Wedding Ceremony""; ""(III) �Spiritual� Kin""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1 Milk Brotherhood""""2 Sworn Brotherhood""; ""3 Godparenthood""; ""(IV) Fulfilment and Prosperity through Kinship and Marriage""; ""(V) Conclusion""; ""4 The Role Complex of Domestic Life: Growing Up in Rural Georgia""; ""(I) Socialization""; ""1 Birth""; ""2 School""; ""3 Youth""; ""(II) Marriage Status and Household Adjustment""; ""(III) Parenthood""; ""(IV) Grandparenthood""; ""(V) Senility and Advanced Old Age""; ""(VI) Adjustments at Death""; ""(VII) Conclusion""; ""5 The Morality of Age, Gender and Kin Distinctions""; ""(I) Gender Differences""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1 The Role of Women in the �Great Georgian Tradition�""""2 Women the Guardians of Literacy""; ""3 Women in the Village""; ""4 Gender Distinctions in Everyday Life""; ""(II) The Distinctions of Age""; ""(III) The Morality of Kin Distinctions: Summary""; ""(IV) Conclusion""; ""6 The Domestic Unit in Transition: Continuity and Change""; ""(I) General Approaches; Analytical Frameworks""; ""1 Social Change Theory""; ""2 The Choice of Suitable Criteria for Evaluation""; ""(II) General Background in Georgia for Assessing Change""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1 Historical and Economic Aspects of Georgia Before Soviet Rule""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-221)
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