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Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Stage for Romance -- A Brief Introduction to Khevsur Love -- Well, Did They, or Didn't They? -- Georgian Stereotypes about Khevsurs and "the Romance of the Mountains" -- Language and Desire: Genres and Practices -- The Khevsurs in History -- Plan of the Book -- 1 THE AMBASSADOR -- The Elchi as Mediator -- Autonomy, Persuasion, and Desire -- The Elchi at Work: A Girl's First Night of Sts'orproba -- Conversation 1: The Elchi and the Girl -- Conversation 2: The Elchi and the Boy -- Conversation 3: The Elchi and the Mother -- 2 SPENDING THE NIGHT TOGETHER -- Lying Down and Getting Up: Sociable Talk and Sociable Sexuality -- Intimate Contact: Prohibition and Transgression -- Boundary: Sex -- Boundary: Marriage -- Sociability and Obligation -- The Role of Different Genres -- 3 GOING STEADY -- The Social Life of Vodka -- Going with Vodka -- Visiting Vodka -- Road Vodka -- The Sexual Life of Vodka -- Stealing Vodka -- Saving and Hiding Vodka -- Drinking Vodka -- From Casual to Durable Sexual Relations: Sts'orperis and Dzmobilis -- The Dzmobili Relationship and Its Rivals -- Night and Day -- Creating and Maintaining Durable Relationships over Time -- Creating the Relationship: Oaths and Hints -- Maintaining the Relationship: Waiting and Exchange -- 4 INVISIBLE LOVE POETRY -- The Invisibility of Khevsur Love Poetry: The Absence of the Lyric Mode -- Articulating Desire in Pshavian Lyric -- The Erasure of Desire in Khevsur Love Poetry -- Anonymity: Erasure of the Author of Love Poetry -- Replacing Individual Desire with Desirability in Praise Poetry -- 5 DEMONS, DANGER, AND DESIRE: THE "ARAGVIAN" SEXUAL REVOLUTION -- Scandal Narratives -- Russian Marriage -- The Aragvian Way of Love -- Khevsur Girls' Love Stories: Three Case Studies -- Mariemi's Story.

Nanuk'i's Story -- Ashekali's Story -- 6 INTELLIGENTSIA AND PEOPLE: A LOVE STORY -- Genres of Realism and Romance -- The Story of Natela: A Khevsur Romance of the Nineteenth Century -- The Story of Natela: A Native Ethnographer of the Twentieth Century -- 7 ECHOES OF LOVE LOST: SOCIALIST NOVELS AND FILMS -- Socialist Ethnographies -- Modernist Novels -- Socialist Films -- Modernity and Tradition: Frame Narrative and Framed Narrative -- Romance, Poetry, and Violence -- Echoes of Sts'orproba -- Conclusion: Virtual Romance -- From Film to Image: Khevsurs in Late-Socialist Art -- Virtual Romance on Georgian Teen Forums -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Love Storiesoffers an ethnography of language and desire that doubles as an introduction to key linguistic genres and to the interplay of language and culture.