Armenian Legends and Festivals (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Louis A. Boettiger

 
9781330501320: Armenian Legends and Festivals (Classic Reprint)

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The author of the study which follows responded to the lure of his task for both theoretical and practical reasons. He seemed, because of his intimate personal relationship to Armenian life, to be peculiarly qualified to study and interpret a cross-section of that countrys life. It is particularly mgent that we as Americans have authentic studies of Armenia and Armenian social life. Heretofore there has been a striking lack of such materials readily accessible in English. Because of the not inconsiderable immigration which reaches us from A rmenia, and because also there has been a call for the United States to act as mandatory for this country under the peace treaty, we should penetrate more deeply into the Armenian heart than we have been able to do so far, if we are to carry through successfully otu job either as assimilator or as friendly guardian. Moreover there is incumbent upon the United States in particular the duty of understanding a country like A rmenia, since we have been foremost in proclaiming the doctrine of the rights of small nationalities. Those are the practical purposes from the standpoint of social politics which have given rise to and confer full warrant upon this study. Of no less importance, however, is the contribution which Mr. Boettiger sstudy makes to theoretical sociology. He has sketched out for us the picture of a refractory culture which refuses to amalgamate with or yield to or be permeated by rival cultures. The social history of this sturdy people offers us a very clear-cut example of what really makes a society or a nation. Not mountains, not dynasties, not blood, but conunon interests, common traditions, conunon beliefs; in short, mental community. The theoretical joins with the practical service of this study if it can strengthen otu understanding that only as our own blood and that of our Armenian friends reach the pla
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