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The article discusses the chronological imagination of the North Caucasian community, the village of Akusha in Dagestan, and the way its members construct their collective identity through temporal stratification of their local history. Semi-structured interviews recorded during field work in 2016 reveal how Akushins selectively frame and reinterpret historical periods to uphold a coherent self-image, thus revealing the interplay between collective memory and present-day exigencies.
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Григорьев Григорий (2026) studied this question.
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