Abstract
Mary Chkhartishvili: Proper Name as a Marker of Georgian Identity
The most important among the kaleidoscope of human identities from the perspective of societaldevelopment are collective cultural identities.
There might be distinguished several forms of them, namelyethnic category, ethnic network, ethnie and nation.
The first one represents solely imagined, in artifactspractically unfixed (for its flexibility) form, while others, especially the last ones, are historically welldocumented. Collective cultural identities are delimitated by certain set of markers. Collective proper namerepresents one of the most principal identity marker.
The paper deals with self-designation of modern Georgians Kartveli in which according to the authorcan be traced all states experienced by Georgian identity in its long way of development. It is shown thatGeorgian identity gradually had passed above-listed forms of collective cultural identities, as evolutional stages.
Thus, the fact of continuity of Georgian identity during millennia finds its reflection in collective proper nameof Georgian in-group.
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