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In the mid-1990s at least two peculiar art exhibitions were held in Tbilisi. One of them was called chemi tojinebi (‘My Dolls’), no one can remember what the other one was called, only that it happened 다운로드. What is peculiar about these exhibitions is that they were exhibitions of dolls, made by Georgian artists and intellectuals. These exhibitions of dolls illustrate the emergent antinomies of Georgian urban life under postsocialism in several ways 다운로드. What could be more dissonant than the grim realities of everyday life in Tbilisi of the mid 1990s, a period of war, chaos, poverty, gloom, and the happy childlike figure of the doll 다운로드?

Shatirishvili, Z., and Manning, P. (2011). “Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labour”. Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of a World Area,edited by Bruce Grant & Lale Yalçın-Heckmann. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia 13 hiyobi 이미지. Berlin: LIT Verlag

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At the center of the postsocialist mythological space of Old Tbilisi there are two 19th century figures, the kinto (Georgian k’int’o, the urban street peddler) and the qarachogheli (urban guild craftsman) 다운로드. Once upon a time there were part of a living cityscape; under postsocialism they exist only as isolated fragments of an exploded chronotope of Old Tbilisi. 다운로드. The methodology authors use in this paper is a mixture of ethnographic, semiotic, historical and literary methodologies, as befits the interdisciplinarity of the authors and the historicity of the materials 톱스타 다운로드.

Manning, P. and Shatirishvili, Z. (2011). The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City: The ‘Kinto’ and his City p짱은 내친구. In Darieva, T., Katschuba, W., and Krebs, M. (Eds). Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Plces in Eurasian Cities. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, pp 마이 화웨이 터미널. 261-281.

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Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning – Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi Culture between “High Art” and Socialist Labor.

Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili – The Exotocism and Eroticism of the City: The “Kinto” and his City