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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.
9781442608986
Liebe Sexualverhalten Romantik Brauch Ethnologie
Georgien Chevsuretija
Ethnology--Georgia (Republic)--Xevsureti. Khevsurs--Social life and customs. Khevsurs--Sexual behavior.