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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… of the Georgian highland region known as Svaneti, particularly examining the life of a key interlocutor: the Svan singer, instrumentalist, music teacher, folk ensemble director, and “songmaster” Islam Pilpani (1934–2017). In less than two decades, heavily mythicized Svaneti has gone from …
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Mountains of discontent: Georgian alpinism and the limits of Soviet equality, 1923-1955
This dissertation examines the development of an independent mountaineering community in Georgia and its relationship with the Soviet center from the early 1920s until the immediate post-Stalin period. In 1923, a group of Georgian students led by the mathematician Giorgi Nikoladze and the local …