[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area

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PUBL.- Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and Making of a 
World Area

Posted by: Lale Yalcin-Heckmann <yalcin at eth.mpg.de>


Announcement - Book publication

Caucasus Paradigms
Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area

Edited by
Bruce Grant and Lale Yalçin-Heckmann

What does it mean to know a world area, or to be part of one, for that
matter? The most prominent of "Caucasus paradigms" paint a picture of a 
region famous not only for its cultural, linguistic, religious, 
political, and economic pluralisms, but for its violence, savagery, 
conflict, and corruption; its nobility, hospitality, natural beauty,
and severity. Such paradigms present a paradox: Despite such histories 
of diaspora, migration, conquest, and cohabitation, the Caucasus is most 
often conjured as a place of closure to those "from outside".

This volume seeks to turn a longstanding handicap the perceived 
"unknowability" of the Caucasus into a theme. Bringing together a dozen 
specialists in anthropology, linguistics, and cultural history, it 
identifies patterns in how the Caucasus has figured on the world stage 
through both politics and scholarship. By foregrounding the particular 
purchases of ethnographic knowledge alongside the fine tunings of 
cultural histories, it invites readers to reflect on pluralism and its 
logics in a world area where cultural difference has far too long been 
seen as a root cause of violence.

Contributors:

Levon Abrahamian, Sergei Arutiunov, Georgi Derlugian, Murtazali
Gadjiev, Rebecca Gould, Bruce Grant, Erin Koch, Philip L. Kohl,
Rabadan G. Magomedov, Paul Manning, Shahin Mustafayev, Anton Popov,
Seteney Shami, Lale Yalçin-Heckmann

Volume 13, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia
General editors: Chris Hann, Richard Rottenburg, Burkhard Schnepel

LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2007.

ISBN 978-3-8258-9906-6

314 pp., 29.90 EURO


Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Department II "Socialist and Postsocialist Eurasia"

Dr. Lale Yalçin-Heckmann
Postbox 110351
D-06017 Halle/S.

yalcin at eth.mpg.de
Tel: +49 345 2927 226
Fax: +49 345 2927 502




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