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• catalog abstract ""Many dire predictions followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, but nowhere have they materialized as dramatically as in the Caucasus: insurrection, civil wars, ethnic conflicts, economic disintegration, and up to two million refugees. Moreover, in the 1990s Russia twice went to war in the Caucasus and suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a population small enough to constitute a single district of Moscow." "What is it about the Caucasus that makes the region so restless, so unpredictable, so imbued with heroism but also with fanaticism and pain? In Highlanders, Yo'av Karny offers a better understanding of a place described as a "museum of civilizations," where breathtaking landscapes join with an astounding cultural diversity. Karny spent many months among members of some of the smallest ethnic groups on earth, all of them living in the grim shadow of an unhappy empire. But his book is a journey not only to a geographic region but also to darker sides of the human soul, where courage vies with senseless vindictiveness; where honor and duty require people to share the present with long-dead ancestors, some real, some imaginary; and where an ancient way of life is drawing to an end under the combined weight of modernity and intolerance."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b11843660.
• catalog coverage "Caucasus Ethnic relations.".
• catalog coverage "Caucasus History.".
• catalog coverage "Caucasus, Northern (Russia) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog coverage "Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History Autonomy and independence movements.".
• catalog coverage "Russia (Federation) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog coverage "Russia Ethnic relations.".
• catalog coverage "Soviet Union Ethnic relations.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Many dire predictions followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, but nowhere have they materialized as dramatically as in the Caucasus: insurrection, civil wars, ethnic conflicts, economic disintegration, and up to two million refugees. Moreover, in the 1990s Russia twice went to war in the Caucasus and suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a population small enough to constitute a single district of Moscow." "What is it about the Caucasus that makes the region so restless, so unpredictable, so imbued with heroism but also with fanaticism and pain? In Highlanders, Yo'av Karny offers a better understanding of a place described as a "museum of civilizations," where breathtaking landscapes join with an astounding cultural diversity. Karny spent many months among members of some of the smallest ethnic groups on earth, all of them living in the grim shadow of an unhappy empire. But his book is a journey not only to a geographic region but also to darker sides of the human soul, where courage vies with senseless vindictiveness; where honor and duty require people to share the present with long-dead ancestors, some real, some imaginary; and where an ancient way of life is drawing to an end under the combined weight of modernity and intolerance."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue : a highlander's mind. Geopolitics, geophysics, metaphysics ; A mankurt's memory ; Altitude shapes attitude ; Time for Braveheart ; God's mule stumbled ; Nothing but a "mountain man" ; Russian generals gone mad ; Imagining the past ; My lost Ukrainian syllables -- The last sword dance of the Shapsug. The nose ; The narts ; Time for war ; "Little Cossacks mine" ; Yermolov comes (Oh, no!) ; "The bravest troops in the universe" ; Give us a tower of Babel ; "Grandpa, Khassa will kill us all!" -- Their square inch in the sun. The tale of two redeemers ; And sad flows the Samur ; The city of the great Shamkhal ; And how high would the sheik fly? ; Generals in search of armies ; The Torah scroll of Kryz ; Looking for Khazaria ; Ali Aliyev, a highlander ; See you at Lenin, by the Samsung sign ; The autonomy no despot should ever risk ; Imam, come back, but smile ; Will a peculiar land survive? ; Reading a Daghestani teaspoon -- The gods of the mountains. Every man and his god ; "Naught but my destitution to plead for me" ; The bearer of the genes ; "The stream was warm, the stream was red" ; Kishiyev comes home ; Shame on you, Haji Tolstoy ; Bringing rancor to the Arsanov court ; How the Zikr saved their Islam ; The war on the Zikr ; "Wahhabis send Sufi sheikh to Hell" ; Abdul Wahhab the Jew (and more) ; Romanticizing the "black faces" ; Abdul Latif had a beetle and two hundred tanks ; "The Golan should be Chechen" (It nearly was) ; The last people of the Sabbath ; Wrestling with the spirits ; A Hebrew god on the Iranian border ; "My Cossacks? Jews?" -- Remember and forget : the politics of memory. The dark side of Elbrus ; The ghosts of Caucasian Albania -- Epilogue : the camouflaged mountain.".
• catalog extent "xxvi, 436 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0374226024 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
• catalog spatial "Caucasus Ethnic relations.".
• catalog spatial "Caucasus History.".
• catalog spatial "Caucasus, Northern (Russia) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog spatial "Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History Autonomy and independence movements.".
• catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Ethnic relations.".
• catalog spatial "Russia Ethnic relations.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union Ethnic relations.".
• catalog subject "947.5 21".
• catalog subject "Cossacks Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog subject "DK509 .K346 2000".
• catalog subject "Ethnicity Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog subject "Islam Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog subject "Jews Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog subject "Minorities Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue : a highlander's mind. Geopolitics, geophysics, metaphysics ; A mankurt's memory ; Altitude shapes attitude ; Time for Braveheart ; God's mule stumbled ; Nothing but a "mountain man" ; Russian generals gone mad ; Imagining the past ; My lost Ukrainian syllables -- The last sword dance of the Shapsug. The nose ; The narts ; Time for war ; "Little Cossacks mine" ; Yermolov comes (Oh, no!) ; "The bravest troops in the universe" ; Give us a tower of Babel ; "Grandpa, Khassa will kill us all!" -- Their square inch in the sun. The tale of two redeemers ; And sad flows the Samur ; The city of the great Shamkhal ; And how high would the sheik fly? ; Generals in search of armies ; The Torah scroll of Kryz ; Looking for Khazaria ; Ali Aliyev, a highlander ; See you at Lenin, by the Samsung sign ; The autonomy no despot should ever risk ; Imam, come back, but smile ; Will a peculiar land survive? ; Reading a Daghestani teaspoon -- The gods of the mountains. Every man and his god ; "Naught but my destitution to plead for me" ; The bearer of the genes ; "The stream was warm, the stream was red" ; Kishiyev comes home ; Shame on you, Haji Tolstoy ; Bringing rancor to the Arsanov court ; How the Zikr saved their Islam ; The war on the Zikr ; "Wahhabis send Sufi sheikh to Hell" ; Abdul Wahhab the Jew (and more) ; Romanticizing the "black faces" ; Abdul Latif had a beetle and two hundred tanks ; "The Golan should be Chechen" (It nearly was) ; The last people of the Sabbath ; Wrestling with the spirits ; A Hebrew god on the Iranian border ; "My Cossacks? Jews?" -- Remember and forget : the politics of memory. The dark side of Elbrus ; The ghosts of Caucasian Albania -- Epilogue : the camouflaged mountain.".
• catalog title "Highlanders : a journey to the Caucasus in quest of memory / Yo'av Karny.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".