tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post91436019809558425..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: Ernest Chantre in the CaucasusStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-79473228299177595262012-07-04T22:45:10.755+02:002012-07-04T22:45:10.755+02:00Beautiful ethnographic map, all the more interesti...Beautiful ethnographic map, all the more interesting for the absence of any modern border, notably the turkish-kurdish-armenian puzzle in the South.<br />A striking aspect of the XIX century anthropological photography is its connection with forensic anthropometry — one front-view, one side-view — which ended in divinding humanity into various races, whence all those books about "The Races of Europe" or "of the World" which flourished during the first half of the XX century. None the less, Ermakov photos are wondrous.SRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-31982457089856028242012-07-04T17:17:02.178+02:002012-07-04T17:17:02.178+02:00Khevsuri, literally the canyon-dwellers from Georg...Khevsuri, literally the canyon-dwellers from Georgian Khevi "gorge, canyon", weren't a kingdom or any feudal entity for that matter. Their social organization, to an extent, paralleled the Hungarian Szekely and other militarized border-settlers. The Khevsuri were free tax-exempt commoners.<br /><br />Most of Upper Svanetia consisted of a confederation of communities of free commoners as well (also known as United Khevi); the Dadeshkeliani family ruled only a minor enclave downriver, although they continuously and unsuccessfully jostled for power with their commoner neighbors upriver, as well as with the Dadiani rulers of a large and more prosperous Lower Svanetia. Although the Dadeshkeliani domain lost independence in the 1850s, the family still ruled their lands until 1920s, when the victorious up-valley highlanders from the community of Zhabeshi symbolically demolished the Dadeshkeliani castle.MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.com