1st Edition

Rural Families in Soviet Georgia A Case Study in Ratcha Province

By Tamara Dragadze Copyright 1988
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Tamara Dragadze is the only western-trained anthropologist to have done three years' field work in any rural area of the Soviet Union. The result of her ethnographic study of a village in Ratcha Province in the foothills of the Great Caucasian Range is this unique account of family life in rural Soviet Georgia. Dragadze provides a detailed ethnography of domestic life, showing how rural families... Read more
Introduction 1 The Georgian Villager in the Soviet Context 2 The Social and Economic Organization of Domestic Units 3 Kinship and Marriage 4 The Role Complex of Domestic Life: Growing up in Rural Georgia 5 The Morality of Age, Gender and Kin Distinctions 6 The Domestic Unit in Transition: Continuity and Change, Conclusion

Biography

Tamara Dragadze