Orientalism and Empire. North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

77 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers journals. “People of science gather and classify [gruppiruyt] ethno- graphic ...

78 Orientalism and Empire display of the many peoples of the Caucasus and the surrounding re- gion. Radde founded the museum in ...

79 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers with the realities of modernity, of course, as the debates over the pro- cess ...

80 Orientalism and Empire transcribing languages Missionaries viewed native languages as the best means for the trans- mission o ...

81 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers Closer to the region than European thinkers such as Herder was again the exam ...

82 Orientalism and Empire accommodate the guttural mountain sounds.^166 He insisted on the use of Cyrillic for the new alphabet, ...

83 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers region. Omarov understood his scholarly efforts to be for the benefit of “Dag ...

84 Orientalism and Empire the power of God, and the virtues of sitting “quietly during les- sons.” Literacy and hard work appare ...

85 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers not, or should not be, dispersed throughout an empire or region as a re- sult ...

86 Orientalism and Empire villages responsible for crimes against Cossacks and Russian settlers and recommended “military expedi ...

87 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers tragically decimated. Sukhumi otdel, eventually Sukhumi okrug (1883), became ...

88 Orientalism and Empire work. Ethnographic description conformed more closely to the needs of the empire, as newly understood ...

5 Customary Law: Noble Peoples, Savage Mountaineers Why [did Kazbich kill Bela], what do you think? These Circassians have got t ...

90 Orientalism and Empire kazhdomu zashchitu zakona).^6 This was long before the advent of the Great Reforms brought new attenti ...

91 Customary Law publication in 1830 of the forty-volume Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiskoi Imperii. Work on the second edition w ...

92 Orientalism and Empire healthier the society, and the more original and richer will be the de- velopment of law.”^19 Khomiako ...

93 Customary Law ble.^26 The North Caucasus was thus similar in this respect to other parts of the empire, such as Siberia and t ...

94 Orientalism and Empire interior, was adjucated according to customary law. Murder was in- creasingly resolved by the diiat, o ...

95 Customary Law Imperial educated society envisioned the courts as a site where mountaineer conflicts, complex and often incomp ...

96 Orientalism and Empire of Romantic self-discovery by which people learn they are “peoples” (narody). Russian ideas about cust ...