Alexander Grigolia. Custom and Justice in the Caucasus: the Georgian Highlanders

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Alexander Grigolia. Custom and Justice in the Caucasus: the Georgian Highlanders. AMS Press: New York. A Dissertation in Anthropology Presented to the Faculty of the Gradual School of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Philadelphia 1939//Tbilisi: Free and Georgian Universities Press, 2012, 249 pp.
This article reviews a work called “Custom and Justice in the Caucasus: the Georgian Highlanders” by the first-generation Georgian immigrant. In 1939, the work was submitted as a dissertation to the University of Pennsylvania, while in 1997 it was published as a book. The work covers all aspects of the vernacular lifestyle and social thought that could be important from an ethnological perspective. The author discusses all relevant primary and secondary sources available in that period and even recollects his own experience from his earlier life in Georgia.