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Kostenki 4 ground stone tools in the collection of Kunstkamera museum (MAE RAS)

open access: yesCamera Praehistorica, 2023
Tools made of soft rock materials at the Upper Paleolithic sites are usually represented by pebbles that were used for various domestic purposes without intentional modification of their shape. In the Neolithic period, the anisotropic stone raw materials were processed for manufacturing tools (such as axes, adzes, chisels, etc.) by abrasion — grinding,
Maria Zheltova, Sergey Lisitsyn
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The First Russian Ethnographic Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-1918)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2019
The article is devoted to the history, itinerary and achievements of the First Russian Ethnographic Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-1918). Based on archival material and rare publications the article gives insight into the history of this, little ...
Igor Yu. Kotina   +2 more
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Three conferences in St Petersburg: «The issues of philology and ethnography of Southeast Asia» and Maclay Readings 2023 and 2024

open access: yesШаги
The paper presents a brief synopsis of the latest academic events on the topic of the Asia-Pacific region held in St. Petersburg, namely the Maclay Readings conferences of 2023 and 2024 and «The issues of philology and ethnography of Southeast Asia» 2023.
E. M. Beliakova, M. V. Stanyukovich
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Wartość komemoratywna i emocjonalna „przedmiotów kunstkamerowych” Radziwiłłów birżańskich w XVII wieku

open access: yesKwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Głównym celem tego artykułu jest odtworzenie motywacji, które stały za tym, że pewne kategorie przedmiotów trafiały do skarbców radziwiłłowskich i były przechowywane przez kilka pokoleń.
Urszula Augustyniak
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Social movement of Ural Germans in 1989–2019 (ethnic projects and leaders)

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020
The present article considers the history of the social movement of Russian Germans in the Urals, as well as the factors in its formation, on the basis of previously unknown sources (archival and field materials obtained by the author).
T.S. Kisser
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Traditions of Chuvash and Kalmyck fairy tale epic

open access: yesЭтническая культура, 2023
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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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES OF THE 18TH CENTURY: PRIORITIES AND PRACTICAL MEANINGNG

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета
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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Folklore of Northern Selkups: The Motif of Familial Hostility Analyzed

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
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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About the object collection of the Kunstkamera from Upper Balkaria of Nikolai Adolfovich Bush

open access: yesKavkazologiya, 2023
Valuable components of the Kunstkamera’s museum collection are two sets donated by Academician Nikolai A. Bush (1869–1941). They are organically connected with the personal biography of this famous St. Petersburg and Leningrad scientist – botanist and florist, geographer and glaciologist, researcher of the glaciers of the Western and Central Caucasus ...
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Female Spaces in Ethnically and Religiously Mixed Shrines in the Western Balkans: Cases in Montenegro and Kosovo

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021
This paper discusses female spaces and rituals in two sacred sites in the Albanian-Slavonic borderlands that are shared by Christian and Muslim communities.
Aleksandra Dugushina
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