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Spirit Possession in a Present-Day Russian Village [PDF]
, 2010 The article is based on the data collected in the period from 1999 to 2005 during the author’s field work among the Old-Believers of the Urals and Udmurtia (Verkhokam’e historical region).
Khristoforova, Olga
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International Journal of Forestry Research, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Forest cover dynamics (defined as tree canopy cover change without regard to forest land use) within the Russian European North have been analyzed from 1990 to 2005 using a combination of results from two Landsat‐based forest cover monitoring projects: 1990–2000 and 2000–2005.
Peter Potapov +6 more
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The Udmurt Pantheon and the Udmurt Worldview
, 2021 The research gives an overview of the Heavenly (in/inma/immu/inmu, lit: ‘heaven/heavenly earth’) area, its construction, and its gods. Udmurt narratives about the creation of the world are related to biblical subjects and images. In their folklore we find the image of a heavenly stove and heavenly table, i.e. the constellation of Ursa Major.
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Migrant and Autochthonous Traditions within Udmurt Folksong (on the Example of the Siberian Udmurt) [PDF]
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2020 Abstract This article* investigates, for the first time, the local musical tradition of the Udmurt of Chainsk district (Tomsk oblast). The overwhelming majority of migrants in this region arrived from the Sharkan district of the Udmurt Republic, in Siberia, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Nikolai Anisimov +2 more
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Inmar, the Udmurt God, in Modern Udmurt Literature
, 2021 One of the productive directions of research into Udmurt literature (and more broadly other Finno-Ugric ‘small’ literary traditions) is the identification and interpretation of multidimensional mythological clusters, textual representativeness and semantic ambivalence. In this work I have focused on only one aspect, the functional and semantic field of
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Kama-taguste udmurtide kevadise suure päeva (bõddzh’õnal) kombetalituse laulufolkloor [PDF]
MäetagusedThe article is dedicated to the analysis of musical motifs performed by Eastern Udmurts within the framework of the spring ritual complex Bydzhynnal (The Great Day).
Irina Pchelovodova, Nikolai Anisimov
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A Tree in the Sacred Space of the Udmurts and its Protection
Археология евразийских степей, 2023 The article deals with the issue of sacralization of the tree image in the pre-Christian views of the Udmurts, the indigenous Finno-Ugric people, occupying the territory between the Kama and Vyatka rivers (the Republic of Udmurtia).
Marina A. Mikhailova
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Udmurt Folk Calendar and Rural Society.
Nauchnyy dialog, 2017 The present paper aims to analyze rituals and festivals of the Udmurt calendar which convey the idea of interrelationship between the producing energy of the nature and of the human being taking into consideration folk beliefs about time as well as age and gender stratification of a rural community.
T. G. Vladykina +2 more
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Udmurt Identity Issues: Core Moments from the Middle Ages to the Present Day [PDF]
, 2023 This paper gives an overview of collective identity issues among the Udmurt people, stressing the importance of the historical background since 1552, up to and including current Udmurt ethnic activity.
Casen, Marie
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 1180-1195, July 2025.Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo +2 more
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