In Preparation
“Being a State and States of Being” (monograph)
(ed. with Omar Ribeiro Thomaz) “Pós-Socialismo e Antropologia Social: Perspectivas sobre e a partir de Eurásia e África” (in Portuguese)
Under Review
“Newborn Citizens in a Post-Soviet Landscape” (Social Anthropology)
Forthcoming 2010
(ed. with Sergey Sokolovksij) “Soviet Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Lit-Verlag
“Protected and Rejected Citizens in the 2008 Russian-Georgian War” (Anthropology Today)
“Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia” (special issue of Citizenship Studies issued by Julia Eckert)
“Did Communism Matter? – Settlement Policies from Above and Below in Highland Georgia”, In: Caucasus in Transition: A Dialogue between Culture and Politics (ed.) Nino Tsitsishvili, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
2009
with Teona Mataradze “Leaving and Being Left Behind: Labour Migration in Georgia”, In: Caucasus Analytical Digest 4, available online
2007
“Celebrating Identities in Post-Soviet Georgia”, In: Remaking Identities on the Margins of New Europe (eds.) Darieva, Tsypylma and Wolfgang Kaschuba, Frankfurt, New York: Campus: 282-300
“Sharing the Same Blood – Culture and Cuisine in the Republic of Georgia”, In: Anthropology of Food (special eds.) Eeuwijk, Piet van und Gabriele Weichart, available online
“Von versteckten Schätzen in den Bergen und einem Staat, der kommt und geht – Siedlungspolitik ‚von unten’ im Georgischen Hochland“, In: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers, No. 92
2006
Postsowjetische Feiern – Das Georgische Bankett im Wandel. Stuttgart: ibidem
with Ana Diakonidze “Marshrutki: Public Transportation and the Fight against Corruption in Georgia”, available online
2005
“Banquets, Grant-Eaters, and the Red Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Georgia”, In: Central
Eurasian Studies Review 4, 1: 16-19
“Das georgische Bankett: Eine kulturelle Reserve gegen die Globalisierung“, In: Journal
für Ethnologie 25, available
2004
“Die Kunst des Tischmeisters (tamadoba) – Eine männliche Domäne?“, In: Georgica 27:
51-72
“kartuli ‚supris’ gaazrebis sak’itxisatvis” [“The Question of the Interpretation of the
Georgian ‘supra’”], In: ist’oriul-etnograpiuli sht’udiebi [Historical and Ethnographic
Studies] VIII, 166-169 (in Georgian)
2003
“Pereosmyslenie Gruzinskogo ‘Supra’” [“The ‘supra’ reconsidered“], In: Archeologija,
Ėtnologija i Fol’kloristika Kavkaza [“Archeology, Ethnology and Folklore
Studies of the Caucasus”] (ed.) National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Erevan: 233-235 (in Russian)
2002
“R. Bleichsteiners ‘Kaukasische Forschungen’“, In: Georgica 24: 51-58
“Der Deserteurs-Markt in Tbilissi im Sommer 1997“ (with Georgian summary), In:
Amirani VII: 57-63 (Tbilisi)
2000
“Gastrecht“, In: Ethnoscripts 2,1: 81-85
Reviews
Grant, Bruce: The Captive and the Gift – Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. Ithaka, New York: Cornell University Press 2009. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 134 (2)/2010: 284-285
Katz, Rebecca S.: The Georgian Regime Crisis of 2003–2004 – A Case Study in Post-Soviet Media Representation of Politics, Crime and Corruption. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag 2006. In: Osteuropa 11/2008: 168-169
Julia Jusik: Die Schule von Beslan – Das Wörterbuch des Schreckens. Köln: DuMont 2006. In: Osteuropa 4/2007: 175
Tishkov, Valery: Chechnya – Life in a War-Torn Society. Berkeley et. al.: University of California Press 2004, and Tschetschenien-Komitee: Tschetschenien: Die Hintergründe des blutigen Konfliktes. Kreuzlingen, München: Diederichs 2004. In: Osteuropa 2/2005: 123-126
Hann, Chris (ed.): Postsozialismus – Transformationsprozesse in Europa und Asien aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2002. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128/2003: 337-340
Selected Presentations
Being a State and States of Being, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), November 2009, and Conference “Re-Thinking Citizenship”, Halle/Saale (Germany), November 2008
Citizenship at War. The State and It’s Borders, Annual Meeting of the Brazilian National Association of Post-Graduation and Research in the Social Sciences (ANPOCS), Caxambu, October 2009
Introduction, Conference “Socialist Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Halle/Saale (Germany), April 2009
Newborn Citizens in a Post-Soviet Landscape, University of Sao Carlos (Brazil), November 2009, and Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Ljubljana, August 2008
Of hidden treasures in the hills and a state coming and going – settlement politics „from below“ in Highland Georgia, Werkstatt Ethnologie, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Institute for Ethnology of Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale (Germany), December 2007
Discussant for Jarrett Zigon’s “Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand: An Outline for an Anthropological Approach to the Study of Moralities,” Werkstatt Ethnologie, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Institute for Ethnology of Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale (Germany), June 2006
Celebrating Identities in Post-Soviet Georgia, Conference "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 2006
Post Socialist or Post-Post Socialist? Feasting in the Republic of Georgia, VII. World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Humboldt University, July 2005
Thinking Double – The Georgian Banquet and it’s Fate, Conference “Language, History and Identity in the Caucasus”, Malmö, June 2005
Post-Soviet Feasting—A Case Example from Georgia, Conference of the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies (Soyuz), Bloomington/Indiana, March 2005, and Conference of the British Association for Slavonic Studies (BASEES),Cambridge, April 2005
The “True Academy”: Georgian Banquets and the Construction of National Identity, Conference of the Central European Studies Society (CESS), Bloomington/Indiana, October 2004
Culture and Cuisine in the Republic of Georgia, Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Vienna, September 2004
Feasting the Georgian Way, Special Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN),Warsaw, July 2004
Erinnerung als Widerstand – Bankette in Georgien, Conference „Gemeinsame und getrennte Wege im (post)sozialistischen Europa“, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, July 2004
The supra reconsidered, Conference “Closed Society and Open Society: Conflict and Dialogue” by the International Institute of Peoples of Caucasus (IIPC), Moscow, November 2003
R. Bleichsteiner und der Rückzug in den Inneren Orient, Biannual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV), Göttingen, October 2001