By Levon Abrahamian

This book intends to discuss the old and the new constituents of Armenian identity, such as language, religion, or shared history in broader Transcaucasian and former Soviet Union context. It focuses on the shaping of the paradigms of Armenian identity and the transformation of its key symbols in the late 1980s and post-communist period.

The 16 chapters and 67 subchapters of the book are composed to present respectively the main and forking paths of different ages and of different lengths that eventually form the park/garden of the Armenian identity.

The author is the head of the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the National Academy of Sciences in Armenia.

350 pages, soft cover

ISBN# 1568591853