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Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area Volume 13

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Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area Volume 13 - Grant, Bruce (Editor), and Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale (Editor)
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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 ...

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Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area Volume 13 2008, Lit Verlag

ISBN-13: 9783825899066

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