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Ritual as a Sign and Means of Identity
Nino Abakelia
Ilia Chavchavadze Tbilisi State University
he paper aims to show how it is possible to associate the concept
of identity with “ancestral customs” and “cultural memory”. With
that purpose the author tries to outline a particular version of col-
lective remembering grounded in the use of ritual resources. With
that end in view, the special literature together with the field ethno-
graphic data collected by the author during the years 1976-89
throughout Georgia had been used in the paper. Purposely, the rit-
ual process associated with the early-Christian tradition had been
described not as a stereotyped activity, but as related events lo-
cated within Georgian history. It has also been shown that the men-
tioned custom bore the function of the ethnic and cultural
identification, as foreigners and aliens infiltrated from other coun-
tries who performed the custom, in that way were adopted and in-
tegrated into the Georgian Christian culture. An emphasize has
been made on the importance of the performance of the ritual
which became so inseparable and immanent among the inhabi-
tants of Georgia, that in spite of the confessional turbulences of the
later periods, it persisted in the environment of a new faith. The
main task of the paper was organized around the question:
whether it is possible to experience the feeling of identity and
wholeness within the Georgian culture throughout the centuries
by means of performing an established ancestral ritual. The analy-
sis of the ethnographic data provided the author with clues to the
identity, culture and self-understanding of an age-old Georgian so-
ciety.
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nino abakelia
ilia WavWavaZis saxelobis universiteti 
tatiis mizania aCvenos, Tu rogor SeiZleba dakavSirdes
identobis koncefcia ”winaparTagan dawesebul  wesebTan” da
“kulturul mexsierebasTan”. miznebidan gamomidinare, av-
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