LEADER 03569nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910819039303321 005 20240416113508.0 010 $a0-8014-6176-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461767 035 $a(CKB)2550000000037749 035 $a(EBL)3138216 035 $a(OCoLC)732959297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535736 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11332260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535736 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546938 035 $a(PQKB)11450816 035 $a(OCoLC)966771341 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51780 035 $a(DE-B1597)478377 035 $a(OCoLC)979968160 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10471861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138216 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000037749 100 $a20060228d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDefending the border $eidentity, religion, and modernity in the Republic of Georgia /$fMathijs Pelkmans 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aCulture & society after socialism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8014-4440-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. A divided viillage on the Georgian-Turkis border -- pt. 2. Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- pt. 3. Postsocialist borderlands. 330 $aThis book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Through an exploration of three towns in the southwest corner of Georgia, all of which are situated close to the Turkish frontier, Mathijs Pelkmans shows how social and cultural boundaries took on greater importance in the years of transition, when such divisions were expected to vanish. By tracing the fears, longings, and disillusionment that border dwellers projected on the Iron Curtain, Pelkmans demonstrates how elements of culture formed along and in response to territorial divisions, and how these elements became crucial in attempts to rethink the border after its physical rigidities dissolved in the 1990s.The new boundary-drawing activities had the effect of grounding and reinforcing Soviet constructions of identity, even though they were part of the process of overcoming and dismissing the past. Ultimately, Pelkmans finds that the opening of the border paradoxically inspired a newfound appreciation for the previously despised Iron Curtain as something that had provided protection and was still worth defending. 410 0$aCulture and society after socialism. 606 $aPost-communism$zGeorgia (Republic)$zAjaria 607 $aAjaria (Georgia)$xEthnic relations 607 $aAjaria (Georgia)$xReligion 607 $aAjaria (Georgia)$xBoundaries$zTurkey$xHistory 607 $aTurkey$xBoundaries$zGeorgia (Republic)$zAjaria$xHistory 615 0$aPost-communism 676 $a947.58 700 $aPelkmans$b Mathijs$f1973-$0894930 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819039303321 996 $aDefending the border$93948431 997 $aUNINA