This is a festschrift dedicated to Kevin Tuite. It captures the breadth of his expertise and interest, reaching from linguistics to anthropology, from history to politics. As a linguistic anthropologist, languages and cultures are his most important fields of research, which is reflected in title of this book. It also means that most of our contributors are either linguists or anthropologists, with Stephen Jones providing a perspective from history and politics. Many of the contributing authors are prominent names in Caucasus Studies. They also share a history with Tuite. Some of the chapters explicitly reference this history.weiterlesen