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

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

[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.

Related Resources

None available for this document.

Download Options

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

Select an option:

*Note: A download may not start for up to 60 seconds.

Email Options

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

Select an option:

Email addres:

*Note: It may take up to 60 seconds for for the email to be generated.

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 November 22, 2024, 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 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BN7J6ZMTDIEPQKP.

Harvard: , Transcaucasias: Sketches of the Nations and Races Between the Black Sea and the Caspian. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BN7J6ZMTDIEPQKP.

Historical Summary

Related Resources

Download Options

Email Options