GLOBAL SETTLEMENT: THE FUTURE OF LOCALITY IN RELATION WITH THE MODERN SOCIAL LIFE IN DAGESTAN

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https://doi.org/10.32653/CH154769-782

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locality, globalization, community, global village, migrations.

Abstract

The article discusses a relevant issue of local and global categories in the modern anthropology, and suggests the option of using such categories for the modern sociocultural reality of Dagestan society. The position of leading researchers, deconstructing the concepts of “locality” and “community”, offering an alternative view of a traditional society rooted in a particular place, are demonstrated in the paper. Deterritorialized societies in the face of significant social changes in the world (migration, including the transnational and translocal ones, as well as the process of globalization) are becoming a new form of social interaction, where physical locality gives way to other categories linking people into relevant communities. Regarding the Dagestan realities, we propose to consider local deterministic communities through the prism of the conceptual metaphor “global settlement”. Factors contributing to the formation of such deterritorialized communities are shown, and the mountain village of Bezhta, located near the Russian-Georgian border in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan, is given as an example of such a community. An overview of the complex of physical localities united by belonging to this mountain village (the village itself, resettlement villages on the plain of Dagestan, families located outside the republic in labor migration and living a translocal life, as well as to a lesser extent the village of Chantliskuri in Georgia) as version of the "global settlement".

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Author Biography

  • Ekaterina Leonidovna Kapustina, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of RAS
    Bio Statement: PhD (in Ethnography and Anthropology), Head Department of Ethnography of the Caucasus Researcher focus: Ethnography of the peoples of the Caucasus, Ethnography of Dagestan,Migration processes in the North Caucasus, transnationalism and translocality, Economic anthropology in the North Caucasus, Anthropology of the Caucasian city, social practices in Dagestan society, the fate of traditional crafts of Dagestan, Shiite communities of Dagestan, the Dagestani community.

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2019-12-30

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Kapustina EL. GLOBAL SETTLEMENT: THE FUTURE OF LOCALITY IN RELATION WITH THE MODERN SOCIAL LIFE IN DAGESTAN. ИАЭК. 2019;15(4):769-782. doi:10.32653/CH154769-782