ECHOES OF LOVE LOST: SOCIALIST NOVELS AND FILMS The Story of Natela: A Native Ethnographer of the Twentieth Centuryħ. The Story of Natela: A Khevsur Romance of the Nineteenth Century Khevsur Girls' Love Stories: Three Case StudiesĦ.
DEMONS, DANGER, AND DESIRE: THE "ARAGVIAN" SEXUAL REVOLUTION Replacing Individual Desire with Desirability in Praise Poetryĥ. The Erasure of Desire in Khevsur Love PoetryĪnonymity: Erasure of the Author of Love Poetry The Invisibility of Khevsur Love Poetry: The Absence of the Lyric Mode Maintaining the Relationship: Waiting and Exchange Intimate Contact: Prohibition and TransgressionĬreating and Maintaining Durable Relationships over TimeĬreating the Relationship: Oaths and Hints Lying Down and Getting Up: Sociable Talk and Sociable Sexuality The Elchi at Work: A Girl's First Night of Sts'orproba Language and Desire: Genres and Practices
Georgian Stereotypes about Khevsurs and "the Romance of the Mountains" Introduction: Setting the Stage for Romance 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. In this fascinating book, Manning recreates the story of how these private, secretive practices became a matter of national interest, concern, and fantasy. These practices were well documented by early ethnographers before they disappeared completely by the midtwentieth century, and have become a Georgian obsession. On the other hand, they were sexual, but didn't correspond to what North Americans, or most Georgians, would have called sex. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. 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.
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