Georgians

ETHNONYMS: Kartveli (Georgian person), Sakartvelo (Georgia). Names for the country in other languages include Gruziya (Russian), Gurjistan (Persian), Iberia (Latin), Vrastan (Armenian).

See also Ajarians ; Georgian Jews ; Ingilos ; Khevsur ; Laz ; Meskhetians ; Mingrelians ; Svans

Bibliography

Allen, W. E. D. (1932). A History of the Georgian People. London: Kegan Paul. Reprint. 1971.

Charachidzé, Georges (1968). Le système religieux de la Géorgie païenne. Paris: Maspéro.

Davitaia, F. F. (1972). Sovietskaia Gruziia (Soviet Georgia). Moscow: Progress.

Dragadze, Tamara (1988). Rural Families in Soviet Georgia. London: Routledge.

Grigolia, Alexander (1939). Custom and Justice in the Caucasus: The Georgian Highlanders. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lang, David Marshall (1966). The Georgians. New York: Praeger.

Papashvily, George, and Helen Papashvily (1946). Yes and No Stories: A Book of Georgian Folk Tales. New York: Harper.

Suny, Ronald G. (1988). The Making of the Georgian Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Tuite, Kevin (in press). Violet on the Mountain: An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Volkova, N. G., and G. N. Dzhavakhishvili (1982). Bytovaia kultura gruzii XIX-XX vekov: Traditsii i inovatsii (Georgian domestic culture in the 19th-20th centuries: Tradition and innovation). Moscow: Nauka.

ELISA WATSON