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Chuvash folk pathonyms: A lexicographical perspective

Philology. Theory & Practice
The work is dedicated to the development of a dictionary of disease names (pathonyms) functioning within the Chuvash linguistic environment. Pathonyms represent a unique body of material, the scientific study of which has not only ethnographic, but also ...
Roman Sergeevich Ivanov
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Chuvash Religious Practices: Traditions and Their Transformation (Late 20th – Early 21st Century)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences, 2023
The paper examines modern religious practices of two ethno-confessional groups of the Chuvash — Orthodox and unbaptized, shows the traditional forms of worship and their trans-formation at the turn of the century, determines the compliance of existing ...
E. Yagafova, Igor Petrov
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The Chuvash Borrowings in Zyrian

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1957
IN 1903 Y. WICHMANN PUBLISHED his meritorious work "Die tschuwassischen lehnworter in den permischen sprachen," MSFOu., XXI. iEIe dealt with 161 Votyak 1 words, 34 of which have correspondences in Zyrian.2 Two words were listed only from Zr. In spite of such a striking difference in the spread of the Chuvash 3 borrowings in Vt. and Zr.
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THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL CALENDAR FESTIVALS AND RITUALS OF THE CHUVASH

Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta
The relevance of the research is determined by the importance of studying the gender aspect in the traditional culture in a modern society experiencing global and modernization processes.
Tatiana V. Semenova, Oksana V. Egorova
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Religious Rituals of the Chuvash

Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 1995
Problems concerning the ethnology of religion are very relevant in our time, and are particularly worth elaborating with regard to aspects of folk rituals. It is paradoxical that scholars who are constantly engaged in the study of folk rituals usually do not relate them to systematic social science scholarship.
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Islam among the Chuvashes and its Role in the Change of Chuvash Ethnicity

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2007
The Chuvashes are descendants of Volga-Bulgarians who were the first people to accept Islam as the official state religion in Turkish history. Although some of them have kept alive the traditional beliefs and practices to the present day, they are regarded as a Christian Turkish community today.
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ACADEMIC CENTERS OF THE BASHKIR, TATAR AND CHUVASH PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIATS OF EDUCATION: MAIN DIRECTIONS AND RESULTS OF ACTIVITY

Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta
In the 1920s, academic centers – special bodies of the People’s Commissariats of Education, which united and directed research, educational, methodological and local history work within the autonomy – played an important role in the development of ...
M. N. Gasanova, E. Mineeva
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Economic potential of the Chuvash Republic

Regional Economics: Theory and Practice
Subject. This article discusses the issues of overcoming economic stagnation and solving the problems of depressed regions. Objectives. The article aims to determine the parameters that are of great importance for the development of the Chuvash Republic ...
V. V. Smirnov, A.M. Mulendeeva
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Categorization of the Chuvash Language in the Chuvash Republic and Beyond

2019
The article deals with the categorization of Chuvash, a Turkic language, spoken by Chuvash people (their population number is 1435872) and spread in the areas along the Volga and the Urals. In present day Chuvash as well as Russian is a state language in the Chuvash Republic, its legal status being determined in the Constitution of the Russian ...
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DOWRY AS A METHOD OF PRESERVATION AND BROADCAST OF TRADITIONS OF CHUVASH EMBROIDERY

Месмахеровские чтения — 2024 : материалы междунар. науч.-практ. конф., 21– 22 марта 2024 г. : сб. науч. ст. / ФГБОУ ВО «Санкт-Петербургская государственная художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица»
В результате исследования семейной коллекции тканей и вышивок низовых чуваш, составлявших часть приданого Ф. В. Васильевой, уроженки деревни Кармамеи Канашского района Чувашской Республики, и экспонатов, хранящихся в собрании Российского этнографического
П.В. Маркова, М.И. Ермолаева   +1 more
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