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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES OF THE 18TH CENTURY: PRIORITIES AND PRACTICAL MEANINGNG
General works usually present the 18th century as the time of modern sciences development; the period when the turn from the mediaeval scholastics to the modern experimental sciences has already happened.
Lupanova Ye.M.
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Traditions of Chuvash and Kalmyck fairy tale epic
The article is devoted to a long-term dispute about the peculiarity / non-property of the fairy tale genre of the typical features of the heroic epos. On the basis of the historical-typological method and the method of plot analysis, the corpus of texts ...
Anton K. Salmin
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Folklore of Northern Selkups: The Motif of Familial Hostility Analyzed
Introduction. One specific feature to distinguish Selkup folktales is that the main character and his opponent are usually relatives. So, a positive character kills a relative of his (referred to as devil) and/or the latter’s relatives — daughters and ...
Olga B. Stepanova
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Spread of folklore motifs as a proxy for information exchange: contact zones and borderlines in Eurasia; pp. 3–13 [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to reveal patterns of areal spread of folklore motifs in Eurasia and to understand their rationale. The distribution of 615 motifs related to adventures and tricks according to 339 Old World traditions was statistically processed
Yuri Berezkin
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Archival data on Historical locations of the Asiatic Museum in the Kunstkamera building
The Asiatic Museum was the first specialized research centre for oriental studies in Imperial Russia. The successors of the Asiatic Museum are nowadays the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). The Asiatic Museum collection
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Traditional Selkup Belt: Origin, Manufacture, Symbolism, Application
The article is devoted to the theme “Thing in culture”, and more specifically, “Thing in Selkup culture”. The aim of the study is to consider the belt, an attribute of the traditional outer clothing of the Selkups. It is outlined that the preservation of
Olga B. Stepanova
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This study is dedicated to analysing the Himariot tradition of villagers meeting for coffee in the main square for the celebration of important feasts or family occasions.
Alexander Novik
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STRATIGRAPHY OF CULTURAL INTERACTION IN EURASIA BASED ON COMPUTING OF FOLKLORE MOTIFS; pp. 217–227 [PDF]
The article operates with two categories of units selected from folklore and mythological texts. These are the A-motifs (images and episodes related to cosmology and etiology) and B-motifs (episodes related to adventures and tricks).
Yuri Berezkin
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The article considers mythological representations and ritual practices associated with the personification of the plague among the Romanians of Oltenia (Romania) and the Romanians (or Vlachs) of the Timok Valley (Serbia).
Natalia Golant
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Pandito Khambo-lama’s gifts in the Kunstkamera
Еще в 2009 г. удалось выявить в фонде Музея антропологии и этнографии (Кунсткамеры) РАН ряд буддийских экспонатов Кунсткамеры XVIII в. Письма Миллера к Лубсан-тайше и ламе Дзоржия, опубликованные А.Х. Элертом, консультация XXIV Пандито Хамбо-ламы Аюшеева и инструкции Миллера переводчику Илье Яхонтову, хранящиеся в Санкт-Петербургском филиале архива АН,
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