Rural Families in Soviet Georgia

A Case Study in Ratcha Province
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-99367-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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 adapt their traditional ways in response to Soviet policy and including an account of women's roles and of socialization. Her book is an important contribution to the study of the relationship between social institutions and the State, and it demonstrates the relevance of social anthropology and detailed ethnographic case studies to political science and Soviet studies in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dragadze, Tamara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tamara Dragadze