Female Genealogy and Cultural Memory in Georgia

• Published in: Genealogy (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 82
• Main Author: Sideri, Eleni
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-09-2024
• Subjects: Anthropology; cinema; Cultural anthropology; Cultural heritage; Culture; Ethnography; Europeanization; family; Females; Genealogy; generations; Gogoberidze, Lana; Kinship; Mediation; memory; Modernity; multimodality; Narratives; women; United Kingdom; Russia; Tbilisi Georgia (country); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR; Georgia (country); Caucasus
• ISSN: 2313-5778; 2313-5778
• DOI: 10.3390/genealogy8030082

Three generations of women creators of Georgian cinema belonging to the same family, the Gogoberidze family, will form the basis for this research, which aims to explore the notion of female genealogy through a multimodal ethnography. What type of memories does this female genealogy shape and how is it shaped by them? My research combines bibliographical research, interviews, and film analysis. By doing so, I examine how family memories as story-telling cross different expressive media and bridge generations by postulating the role of affective memory as key factor for the formation this genealogy. In addition to that, I pinpoint to the fact of the creative resignification of genealogy as part of these women’s engagement with cinema but also the social struggles of their times (feminism, anti-Russian politics, etc.).