摘要：Often
researchers and reviewers, in the search for new materials and books, neglect
older works that are vitally important to our understanding the present. One of
these books is Paul Magnarella’s The Peasant Venture: Tradition, Migration
and Change among Georgian Peasants in Turkey , published in 1979 by Schenkman
Publishing. Magnarella, an anthropologist by training, lived in the Georgian
village of Hayriye in Turkey at a pivotal historical moment – a moment where the
more salient signifiers of ethnic Georgianness in a village far away from its
ethnic-kin state were being lost. The loss of Georgian uniqueness has been
further fueled by the well-documented large scale out-migration of agrarian
Turkish citizens to Germany, which further changed the social balance of the
town.
