{"product_id":"for-marxist-linguistics-1934-niko-marr-georgian-japhetic-theory-collection-rare","title":"Chikovani M. et al. (eds.). For Marxist Linguistics: Jubilee Collection Dedicated to Academician Niko Marr (Marksistuli enat'mec'nierebisat'vis: Ak'ademikos Niko Marr-sadmi midzghvnili saiubileo k'rebuli), 1934. In Georgian and Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003eმარქსისტული ენათმეცნიერებისათვის: აკადემიკოს ნიკო მარრი-სადმი მიძღვნილი საიუბილეო კრებული, მისი სამეცნიერო მოღვაწეობის ორმოცდახუთი წლის შესრულების გამო.\u003cbr\u003eსარედაქციო კოლეგია: მიხეილ ჩიქოვანი, ალექსანდრე ღლონტი, მიხეილ ჩხენკელი და სხვა.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი: სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, 1934 (ტექნიკა და შრომა-ს სტამბა).\u003cbr\u003e333 გვ., პორტრეტებითა და ილუსტრაციებით, 26 სმ.\u003cbr\u003eმყარი მფლობელის ქლოთის (კოლენკორის) გარეკანი.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eFor Marxist Linguistics: Jubilee Collection Dedicated to Academician Niko Marr on the Occasion of His Forty-Five Years of Scientific Activity.\u003cbr\u003eEditorial board: Mikheil Chikovani, Alexandre Ghlonti, Mikheil Chkhenkeli, and others.\u003cbr\u003eTiflis: State University Publishing House, 1934 (Technique and Labor Printing House).\u003cbr\u003e333 pp., with portraits and illustrations, 26 cm.\u003cbr\u003eOwner’s cloth (calico) binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis rare 1934 Tiflis jubilee volume, issued by Tbilisi State University shortly after Niko Marr’s death (December 1934), celebrates the 45th anniversary of the scholarly career of Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (Николай Яковлевич Марр, 1864–1934), the influential Georgian-born Soviet linguist, archaeologist, orientalist, and founder of the so-called “Japhetic theory” (later reframed as “New Theory of Language”). Marr, an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a key figure in early Soviet linguistics, promoted a Marxist materialist approach to language origins, viewing it as a class-based superstructure evolving through stages tied to socio-economic formations. The collection, edited by prominent Georgian scholars (Mikheil Chikovani, Alexandre Ghlonti, Mikheil Chkhenkeli et al.), contains articles, tributes, analyses of Marr’s Japhetic linguistics, Caucasian philology, paleontology of speech, and his archaeological excavations (Ani, Mtskheta, etc.), all in the context of building a proletarian linguistics in the USSR. Texts appear in both Georgian and Russian, reflecting the bilingual academic environment of 1930s Soviet Georgia. Lavishly produced with portraits of Marr, illustrations (archaeological finds, linguistic charts), and in sturdy owner’s calico binding, this 333-page volume is a significant artifact of the peak period of Marrism before its official condemnation in 1950 (Stalin’s “Marxism and Problems of Linguistics”). Highly collectible for specialists in history of linguistics, Soviet science policy, Caucasian studies, Japhetic theory, early Marxist philology, Georgian-Soviet academia, and rare 1930s Tbilisi imprints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963029127210,"sku":"EB-306376477542","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_5930557e-1d05-4882-b174-27162d2f8f46.jpg?v=1768160026","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/for-marxist-linguistics-1934-niko-marr-georgian-japhetic-theory-collection-rare","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}