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Uncertain divides : religion, ethnicity, and politics in the Georgian borderlands

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Authors
  • M. Pelkmans
Supervisors
  • A. Blok
  • H.G.G.M. Driessen
Award date 25-06-2003
Number of pages 270
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Document type PhD thesis
Note Research conducted at: ASSR
Language English
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The Religious Frontier ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN UPPER AJARIA
On the Frontier
CHAPTER ONE The Making and Transformation of the Frontier
CHAPTER TWO Defending Muslim Identity against the Tides
CHAPTER THREE On the role of Ancestors and Enemies in Religious Conversion
CHAPTER FOUR Dynamics of Religious Change
The Georgian-Turkish Border KINSHIP AND ETHNICITY IN A DIVIDED VILLAGE
Divided Village
CHAPTER FIVE Caught between States
CHAPTER SIX Jason and the New Argonauts
CHAPTER SEVEN Lost Relatives
Borderlands of Modernity IMAGING AND EXPERIENCING 'THE TRANSITION' IN BATUMI
In the Borderlands
CHAPTER EIGHT Channeling Discontent
CHAPTER NINE The Social Life of Empty Buildings
CONCLUSIONS Borders in Time and Space
Glossary
Bibliography
Summary in Dutch
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