"Antimarriage" in Ancient Georgian Society  

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Tuite, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 42 no. 1 (Mar. 2000), page 37-60.
Fulltext: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 37-60.pdf (2.86MB)

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One of the more striking features of the traditional cultures of the northeastern Georgian provinces of Pshavi and Khevsureti is the premarital relationship known as c'ac'loba (Pshavi) or sc'orproba (Khevsureti). This relationship was formed between young women and men from the same com- munity, including between close relatives. It had a strong emotional, even intimate, component, yet it was not to result in either marriage or the birth of a child. Either outcome would have been considered incestuous. I demonstrate that the Svans, who speak a Kartvelian language distantly related to Georgian, preserve a structurally comparable ritual, the designation of which, c'm:c'i:lsr, is formed from a root cognate with that of c'ac'loba. On the basis of a com- parative analysis of these Svan and Pshav-Khevsurian practices in the context of traditional Georgian beliefs concerning marriage and relationships between "in-groups" and "out-groups," I propose a reconstruction of the significance of *c'ac'-al- 'antimarriage' in prehistoric Kartvelian social thought.

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