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Love Stories - Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia (Paperback)
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Love Stories - Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia (Paperback)
Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
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In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of
mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and
romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one
hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to
marriage. On the other hand, they were sexual, but didn't
correspond to what North Americans, or most Georgians, would have
called sex. These practices were well documented by early
ethnographers before they disappeared completely by the
midtwentieth century, and have become a Georgian obsession. In this
fascinating book, Manning recreates the story of how these private,
secretive practices became a matter of national interest, concern,
and fantasy. Looking at personal expressions of love and the
circulation of these narratives at the broader public level of the
modern nation, Love Stories offers an ethnography of language and
desire that doubles as an introduction to key linguistic genres and
to the interplay of language and culture.
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