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

97 Customary Law For Grabovskii, the great impediment to the proper historical de- velopment of the mountaineers was not Russia’ ...

98 Orientalism and Empire Russian view, possessed unlimited potential for further development and growth, at least if they had t ...

99 Customary Law included the intrusion of Islam, the absence of literacy, and a failure among mountaineers to respect the tradi ...

100 Orientalism and Empire criminality also suggests that colonial officials viewed law, to borrow from Antonio Gramsci, as a pr ...

101 Customary Law young men, for example, of gathering at the hut of newlyweds to lis- ten in on their activities frequently end ...

102 Orientalism and Empire Omar of Kaitak-Tabasaran okrug shot himself “after his mother scolded him for laziness.”^78 Sixteen-y ...

103 Customary Law lover) by stabbing her with his kinzhal fifteen times. Eight of the wounds were to the head.^84 In similar cir ...

104 Orientalism and Empire Officials had to intervene to ensure the prosecution of men guilty of these horrific crimes related t ...

105 Customary Law collection of mountaineer folklore but a compilation of criminal inci- dents that posed difficulties for the r ...

106 Orientalism and Empire upravlenie) that had been established by Bariatinskii in the mountain regions. The North Caucasus mus ...

107 Customary Law This push for bureaucratic uniformity and centralized rule on the part of officials in St Petersburg represent ...

108 Orientalism and Empire elders who cooperated too closely with the regime found themselves in great physical danger.^117 The ...

109 Customary Law nineteenth-century ethnographers had identified as “custom,” and they anticipated a future unburdened by the l ...

6 The Russian Shamil, 1859–18 71 European civilization, with railroads, steam cars, gas lighting, the comforts of life, and so o ...

111 The Russian Shamil the flight of Shamil, the exchanges between Bariatinskii and the imam, and the behaviour of Shamil in cap ...

112 Orientalism and Empire his own mother to the people of Dargo. “Weak, like all woman,” Shamil said of his mother, “she submit ...

113 The Russian Shamil Aleksandr Chavchavadze, married Aleksandr Griboedov, author of Woe from Wit.^17 Their gravesite on the si ...

114 Orientalism and Empire and Georgian Christianity, emphasized Barbare Jorjatsisa in Iveria in 1893, found themselves in a pre ...

115 The Russian Shamil 40,000rubles in silver from the Chavchavadze family. He lamented the end of his exposure to a European ed ...

116 Orientalism and Empire began immediately after his removal from his mountain hideout of Gunib. After descending from the mou ...