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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn  and
Martin Demant Frederiksen
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Ethnographies Of Absence In Contemporary Georgia
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Slavic Review , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , Summer 2014 , pp. 241 - 245
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2014 

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1 For examples of this, see Assche, Kristof Van, Salukvadze, Joseph, and Shavishvili, Nick, eds., City Culture and City Planning in Tbilisi: Where Europe and Asia Meet (Lewiston, N.Y., 2009)Google Scholar, and Frederiksen, Martin Demant, Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia (Philadelphia, 2013).Google Scholar

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3 Cf. Ghodsee, Kristen, Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism (Durham, 2011)Google Scholar, Pedersen, Morten Axel and Højer, Lars, “Lost in Transition: Fuzzy Property and Leaky Selves in Ulaanbaatar,” Ethnos 73, no. 1 (March 2008): 73–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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6 Quoted in David M. Herszenhorn,“Exiting President Reflects on Georgia,” New York Times, 18 November 2013, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/ll/18/world/europe/georgia-president-takes-office.html?smid=pl-share(last accessed 5 February 2014). 7. Quoted in Jackson Diehl,“Georgia's Westward Course,” Washington Post, 24 November 2013, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-georgias-westward-course/2013/ll/24/52a89efO-5437-lle3-9e2c-eld01116fd98_story.html (last accessed 5 February 2014).