Direction:History
Position:Full Professor
Has received Postdoctoral education as a Volkswagen Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Oriental Archaeology and Art at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) with Prof. Dr. Winfried Orthmann between 1998-1999. Research thesis on “The Economic and Cultural Structure of the South Caucasian Population in the Third Millennium B.C.” Has defended doctoral dissertation in 1989 in Pre- and Protohistory at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (Supervisor Prof. Konstantin Phickhelauri, Prof. Vakhtang Shamiladze) on the topic of “The Dwelling in the Ethnic Mode of Life”. Was a Doctoral Candidate at the State University of Tbilisi between 1985-1989. Graduated from Tbilisi State University School of History (Diploma Excellent) in 1976-1983.
Has worked at Ilia State University as a Professor and Dean of School of Humanities and Cultural Studies between 2006-2010. Was Director of the International Caucasological Scientific Research Institute in 1997. Was Professor of Ethnology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University of between 1990-2006. Professor of Caucasian History at State Pedagogical University of Tbilisi in 1994-2006. Was a Professor of Georgian History at Technical University of Tbilisi 1988-1994. Senior Researcher of Kakhetian Archeological Expedition at Archeological Research Center, Georgian Academy of Sciences during 1983-2006.
Scientific interests / research interests
Research Projects
- 2012-2015 – VolkswagenStiftung. Zwischen Europa und Orient – Mittelasien/Kaukasus im Fokus der Wissenschaft. Transformations of Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimages and Conceptions of Hybridity in the Post-Soviet Caucasus. https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/personDetails.do?addrNum=33676&fromProject=86472
- October- December 2010: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the University of Halle-Wittenberg Research project: The Mongol rule and the changes in the Georgian social life.
- October- December 2007: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the Institute for Pre- and Early History at the University of Heidelberg (with Prof. Dr. Harald Haputmann) Research project: For the opinion of the Economic Cultural structures of the population of the Central Caucasus and Hyndukusch middle of the 3rd millennium BC.
- Iuni – October 2003: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the Institute for Pre- and Early History at the University of Heidelberg (with Prof. Dr. Harald Haputmann). Research Proj ect: “On Food Production Techniques of the Central Transcaucasian Population of the mid-3rd Millennium B.C “
- October- December 2000: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the Institute for Oriental Archaeology and Art at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Prof. Dr. Winfried Ortmann). Research Project: “Traditional Shrines in East Georgia.”
- June -Aug. 1980; June-Aug. 1981; June – Aug. 1984; June-Aug. 1986; June-Aug. 1988: Ethnographic Expedition to Svanetien (West Georgia). State Museum of Georgia. Research Associate.
- November-December 1995: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the Institute for Pre- and Early History at the University of Heidelberg (with Prof. Dr. Harald Haputmann). Research project: “The Housing Phenomenon in the System of Caucasian Cultures in the Paleometal Epoch.”
- 1983-2004: Kakhetian Archaeological Expedition. Georgian Academy of Sciences. Senior Researcher.
- April-May 1985-1986; 1995-1996: Ethnolinguistic Expedition in Daghestan and Chechnya.
- 1986-1994 Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Georgia for Georgian History.
- June 1984: XIII Assyriological World Congress. Leningrad (Russia).
- April 1986: III Research Congress of Younger Scholars. Archeological Research Center, Georgian Academy of Sciences. Tbilisi.
- April 1989: IV Research Congress of Younger Scholars. Archeological Research Center, Georgian Academy of Sciences. Tbilisi.
- May 1991: Caucasological Research Conference at the University of Chicago (USA).
- October 1983; October 1986; October 1989: II, III, IV International Symposium, “The Caucasus in the System of Eurasian Cultures in the Paleo-metal Epoch.” Tbilisi, Signagi, Telavi.
- November 1988: USA-USSR Archaeological Colloquium. Signagi, Georgia. April 1996. International Archaeological Colloquium. Signagi, Georgia.
- July-August 1994: Ethnographic Expedition to Meschet-Djawacheti.
- July 1995: July 1996; July-October 1997; June-August 1999, 2000, 2001: Ethnolinguistic Expedition to Svaneti, Ratscha, Imereti, Kacheti, Djavakheti, Khevsureti, Pschavi, Mtiuleti. Canadian Academy of Sciences. Coordinator. `
- From November 1991: Lectures at the State University of Tbilisi. (Intensive Course on Paleoethnology).
- From September 1992: Lectures at the State Pedagogical University of Tbilisi. (Basic course in Archaeology and Ethnology).
- Monographs
Housing in the Life of the Ethnos, Tbilisi: Mecniereba, 1989. [In Russian]. - For a delimitation of the place of the phenomenon of dwellings in the daily life and culture of the Georgian people in the past (An attempt at
- Paleo Ethnological study).Amirani IX1 Montreal-Tbilissi: 2003. -256 S. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Dwelling in the life and culture of the ancient Georgians, Tbilisi University Press, 2005 – 302 S. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Saint George the great Knight. Tbilisi: Amirani 2014 – 65 S. [In Georgian, resume in English and Germany].
Articles and Other Essays - Bukhrashvili P. On the Question of the Determination of Archaeological Culture and of Economic/Cultural Types. Proceedings of the State
- University of Tbilisi, vol. 12 Tbilisi. University Press, 1986, 115-127. [In Georgian].
Bukhrashvili P. The Housing Phenomenon and Spatial Perception. Garadji. Proceedings of the Kakheti archeological expedition. Tbilisi: Mecniereba, 1988, 207-219. [In Georgian]. - Bukhrashvili P. Religion as Social Occurrence. Archaeological Research. Tbilisi: Mecniereba, 1989, 127- I 41. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. Housing and Genotheism, Proceedings of the State University of Tbilisi, vol. 14. Tbilisi: University Press, 1990. 179-18 8. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. On the Question of Research on the Housing Phenomenon. Pröceedings of ihe Kakhetian Archaeological Expedition, vol. 9. Tbilisi: Mecniereba, 78-89. [In Georgian].
- Bukhrashvili P. The Festival of St. Giorgi in Hadischi. Kartvel i Eri N14, Tbilisi 1991, St.4. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. National Consciousness and Economic Psychology. Proceedings of the Greek-Georgian University, vol. 1. Tbilisi: University Press, 1994, 28-64. [In Georgian).
- Bukhrashvili P. The Housing Phenomenon in Early History. Proceedings of the Greek Georgian University, vol. 2 . Tbilisi: University Press, 1995. 17-32. [In Georgian].
- Bukhrashvili P. Ha, Hat Marjah: Images from Chechen Ethnology. Marji Journal .Tbilisi 1995, 8. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. On the Question of the Caucasian National Idea. Marji (Tbilisi 1995), 7-8. [In Georgian]
- Bukhrashvili P. Housing in Georgian Folklore. Research Conference at the Greek Georgian University. Tbilisi: University Press, 12-13. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. On the Question of National Consciousness. Kutaisuri Saubrebi, vol. 3 Kutaisi: University Press, 1996, 27-29. [In Georgian].
- Bukhrashvili P. On the Question of the Ethnogenetic Process in Old Caucasia. Kutaisuri Saubrebi, vol. 4 , Kutaissi: University Press, 1997, 33-34. [In Georgian].
- Bukhrashvili P. The Housing Phenornenon in the System of Caucasian Cultures in the Paleo-Metal Epoch,” Amirani, vol. 1, Tbilisi: Amirani Press, 1999, 18-32. [In German].
- Bukhrashvili P. Tuite K.J., Binarism and Complimentarity in Northeast Georgia: The Conception of Boys and Girls at the Jagsari Shrine,
- Georgika, vol. 22 (Konstanz: UVK-University Press, 1999), 59-73. [In German]
- Bukhrashvili P. (20001): The Festival of St. Giorgi in Svaneti. Kutaisuri saubrebi, vol. 7 (Kutaisi 2000), 3 6-3 9. [In Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. (20002): On Food Production Techniques of the Central Transcaucasian Population of the mid-3rd Millennium B.C., Amirani, vol. 2. Tbilisi: 2000, 19-33. [In Georgian, resume in English] .
- Bukhrashvili P. (20003): The Russian Conception of Colonialism and Transcaucasian Ethnopolitical Reality. Amirani, vol. 2 Tbilisi: 2000, 72-84. [In Georgian, resume in English]
- Bukhrashvili P. (20011): Towards an understanding of Georgian-Armenian Relations. Amirani IV – V. Tbilssi: 2001, 113-138. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Bukhrashvili P. (20012): Kartli and Kakheti in the last quarter of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Amirani IV -V (Montreal – Tbilissi 2001 ), 139-164. [In Georgian, resume in English] .
- Bukhrashvili P. (20013): Preliminary report on archaeological discovery: “Drosha” (proccessional cross) from Lasharis Jvari (Khmelgori, Pshavi). Amirani IV – V. Montreal – Tbilissi: 2001, 266-270. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Bukhashvili P. (20021): Lichenishi – a hollday for sons in the Upper Svan community of Hadishi. Amirani VI. Montreal –Tbilissi: 2002. St.7-19. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Bukhrashvili P.,Tuite. K. (20022): Central Caucasian religious systems and social ideology in the post-Soviet period. Amirani VII . Montreal-Tbilissi: 2002. 7-24. [In English, resume in Georgian] .
- Bukhrashvili P. (20031): On the of investigation of ethnic Culture. Kartvelian Heritage IX. (Kutaisi 2003) 73- 89. [In Georgian, resume in English].
- Buchraschwili P., Dolidze R., Tuite K.J, (20032): Interview mit Chevisberi Pilipe Bagiauri, Georgika, vol. 26 . Aachen. Shaker Verlag 2003, 44-64 [In German].
- Buchraschwili P. (2004): Die Flagge und die Insignien des Stammführers aus der Bronzezeit. Amirani X. Tbilissi: Amiraniverlag 2004. St. 7-21 [In Georgian, resume in German].
- Bukhrashvili P. Traditional cultic sites and associated religious practices in the highland province of Pshavi (northeastern Georgia): Mapping and documentation. AMIRANI XIV-XV, Tbilisi 2006, St. 29-36
- Buchraschwili P. Bautradition, Gen- und theokratisches, soziales System der Bevölkerung vom Kaukasus und des Hindukusch-Hochlandes (Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede). AMIRANI XIV-XV, Tbilisi 2006 St. 22-28[In German].
- Bukhrashvili P. House and Shrine in ancient Georgia; Bulleten of the AGIBAS (American-Georgian Institute of Biblical and Archaeological Studies) # 2-3, Tbilisi State University, Cornell University 2006, St.9-14.
- Buchraschwili P. (2007): Archaeological excavations in Gomareti (South East Georgia). AMIRANI XVII-XVIII, Tbilisi 2007 St. 25-37[In Georgian].
- Bukhrashvili P. (20101): Towards Undestanding of the Georgian-Armenian Relations. History and Identity: The South Caucasus and Other Gedions in Transition. Edit Print, Yerevan 267-284 st.
- Bukhrashvili P. (20102):The Russian Perception and the Ethno-Political Reality in the Transcaucasia History and Identity: The South Caucasus and Other Gedions in Rransition. Edit Print, Yerevan 256-269 st.
- Buchraschwili P. (20111): Die mongolische Herrschaft und die Veränderungen im georgischen sozialen Leben. Amirani XXII, Tbilisi. http://caucasology.com/amirani22/bukhrashvili.djvu
- Bukhrashvili P. (20112): The flag and insignia of the tribe leader from the Bronze Age, The linguo cultural Studies, Batumi, 2011 St. 94-99
- Buchraschwili P. (20121) On a motif in Georgian iconography. Amirani XXIV, Tbilisi. http://www.caucasology.com/amirani24/bukhrashvili.djvu
- Bukhrashvili P. (20122) Reflexion sur les relations armeno-georgiennes, L’Europe et le Caucase. Les relations interregionales et la question de l’identite. Univeritete d’Etat Ilia, Tbilisi, 2012 275-283 st.
- Buchraschwili P. (20123): ,,Hause” – ,,Shrine” in ancient Georgia, History and Archaeology of the Caucasus, Ilia State University, Tb. 2012 S.. 210-219
- Buchraschwili P. ,,House” in ancient Georgia. Proceedings of III international congress of Caucasiologists. Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Tb. 2013 გვ. 27-28
- Buchraschwili P. Nicholas Marr – 150, Amirani XXV, S. 276-286, Tb. 2014 http://caucasology.com/view_amirani_geo.php?id=314
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Caucasus and Outer World in IX-II BC; Sacred Geography in the Caucasus; Georgian Area Studies; Everyday Life and Culture of Georgian Nation (Ethnography); The Caucasus and the outside world Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Ethnology; Sciences of History and Neighboring Branches; Cities and City-life in Georgia; History of Georgian Customary Law |