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Kwartalnik Historii Kultury MaterialnejGłównym 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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Traditions of Chuvash and Kalmyck fairy tale epic
Этническая 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
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаGeneral 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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Yearbook 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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Folklore of Northern Selkups: The Motif of Familial Hostility Analyzed
Oriental 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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Spread of folklore motifs as a proxy for information exchange: contact zones and borderlines in Eurasia; pp. 3–13 [PDF]
Trames, 2015 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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New visualization method for cranial carvings of Rapanui wooden figurines
Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 425-444, April 2024.Abstract Precontact culture of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) produced wooden figurines carved with attention to detail and featuring careful surface polishing. These figurines depict humans and akuaku spirits. Male figurines usually have bald heads adorned with elaborate designs carved in low relief, depicting human beings, fishes, birds, chimerical ...
Rafal Wieczorek, Paul Horley
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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2022 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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Archival data on Historical locations of the Asiatic Museum in the Kunstkamera building
Orientalistica, 2022 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
Этническая культура, 2020 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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