Since the first Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. How do citizens in the Baltic and South Caucasian statescope with EU expansion and the feeling of existing simultaneously inside and outside Europe? Based on ethnographies and archival work, "Representations on the Margins of Europe" offers new insights into shifts in the national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries. This exploration of local responses to Europe s new hegemony will appeal to anyone interested in anthropology, history, and...

This text approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations.

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.