Transcaucasias: Sketches of the Nations and Races Between the Black Sea and the Caspian


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[Among the Abchasses] for several months she speaks to no one. Then she begins to speak to the younger ones of the household and village, and also with older persons, and last of all with mother-in-law and father-in-law.2 [In Circassia] the bride for a year from the day of her marriage, is not allowed to speak a word louder than a whisper, not even with her own parents, when another feast is celebrated, which gives her the full use of her tongue.3

2Seidlitz, N.vonn/an/an/an/a, "Die Abchasen,"Globus, 66: 41. Cf.Haxthausen, A.vonn/an/an/an/a, , 2: 23.

3 Spenser, E., Travels in Circassia, 2: 98.

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Chicago: Transcaucasias: Sketches of the Nations and Races Between the Black Sea and the Caspian in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed September 22, 2023, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BN7J6ZMTDIEPQKP.

MLA: . Transcaucasias: Sketches of the Nations and Races Between the Black Sea and the Caspian, Vol. 2, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 22 Sep. 2023. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BN7J6ZMTDIEPQKP.

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