Urszula Markowska-Manista PhD
Forgotten minorities in Georgia: tradition, education and everyday life in the face of transformations [Research project 2013/2014]
Scientific aim of the project
The main and direct aim of the project is to study how, in the world of everyday life in the process of natural upbringing (inter-generation transmission) and education (minority and ethnically diversified), the knowledge, memory and awareness of the young generation of Poles, Germans, Jews, Armenians and Azeri about the traditions of their ancestors and the attachment to this tradition is shaped, as well as what is the scope of knowledge and memory about minorities and perception of minorities in the majority Georgian society. The author is searching for an answer to the question: what has remained from the traditions of minorities and if anything has remained, how and to what extent is it present in the sphere of sacrum and profanum?
Learning the narration referring to current inter-generation transmission which dominates in everyday life of minorities in Georgia, taking into particular consideration the specific character of Polish, Jewish, Azeri and Armenian minorities and with reference to Georgian majority, will allow to indicate the factors of oppression and/or those protecting the identity and culture (tradition) of minorities as well as factors and processes contributing to the loosening of inner ethnic relations, which lead to fractures in the cultivation of ancestors’ traditions and to assimilation with the majority Georgian society.
An equally important aim of the study is to learn the specific character and the heritage of the minority cultures mentioned above and their contribution to Georgian culture and its development.
Thus, the undertaken research concerns a pedagogical and ethnographic perspective of how the minorities function in culturally diverse spaces and places, as well as the possibility to cultivate tradition in a multiethnic family, school, peer and local environment in Georgia. The basis of the scientific workshop is the ethnographic qualitative study.
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