KAVKASIA

RESOURCES on Georgian Matters

children's choir of Mestia
girls of the children's choir of Mestia, in Svaneti

http://www.geofolk.net
a scholarly overview of traditional Georgian music, by ethnomusicologist Joseph Jordania

http://www.georgianassociation.org
the homepage of the Georgian Association in the United States: lots of resources and links

http://www.sakartvelo.com/indexOLD.html
a fun, comprehensive site about Georgian culture, history, current events, wine, etc.,
by journalist Giorgi Topouria

Darra Goldstein, The Georgian Feast
(HarperCollins, 1993)
an excellent Georgian cookbook for non-Georgian kitchens

George Hewitt, Georgian: A Learner's Grammar
(Routledge, 1996)
how to teach yourself Georgian relatively painlessly

Kevin Tuite, An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994)
a scholarly edition of 70 poems, with transliterations and translations

Marjory Scott Wardrop, The Man in the Panther's Skin
(first published 1912; out of print except in Soviet editions)
the first English translation of Shota Rustaveli's 13th-century epic poem


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