CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Chabukiani, Nana |
|---|---|
| Title | Disrupted Continuity and Commemoration of Deceased: Case of IDPs in Georgia |
| Summary | Material Objects play a crucial role in sustaining memory about the deceased ancestors and besides, play a significant role in creating a connection between people and a place of their residence. The aim of this research is to show how the memory about the ancestors and an attachment to the place is sustained when the access to the material culture and land are restricted. The research is based on the ethnography done in Koda settlement for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Georgia. IDPs had to flee from their villages due to the military conflict in 2008 from South Ossetia and leave behind all their material belongings. The results show that visiting graves are crucial because a. IDPs commemorate their ancestors there and b. graves create a possibility for social immortality for the living ones. Both are sustained through verbal commemoration of deceased mainly during toasting. However, due to the lack of access to the graves the unity between the dead and the living is disrupted, as unity is possible only through the place of birth and of burial. |
| Supervisor | Vlad Naumescu, Balazs Vedres |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/chabukiani_nana.pdf |
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