Border Settlements in the Past and Present (Kakheti) - PDF

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION............................................................................................... 3

CHAPTER I. FROM THE HISTORY OF KAKHETI (Valerian Vashakidze)

§ 1. The Ancient Population of Kakheti and the Territory of their Residence .. 6

§ 2. The Country of Kakheti and its Eastern Borders...................................... 18

CHAPTER II. ECONOMIC LIFE AND TRADITIONAL CULTURE

(Lavrenti Janiashvili)

§ 1. New Settlements.......................................................................................... 32

§ 2. Economic Life............................................................................................. 37

§ 3, Interreligious relations and ethnic and state identity................................. 45

CHAPTER III. ETHNOCULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF THE

BORDER POPULATION AND PROSPECTS OF INTERCULTURAL

COMMUNICATION (Natia Jalabadze)

§ 1. Problems of the Georgian-Azerbaijani border through the political prism.... 53

§ 2. Intercultural communication and the life of the border population ......... 61

§ 3. The problem of education of ethnic minorities in the border zone........... 72

CHAPTER IV. THE ROLE OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

IN THE BORDER SETTLEMENTS OF KAKHETI (Vakhtang Urushadze)

§ 1. General overview..................................................................................... 80

§ 2. Community and civil society organizations............................................. 85

§ 3. Challenges and activities of community organizations in border villages..... 90

CONCLUSION ................................................................................................. 99

Illustrations ...................................................................................................... 105