Month: October 2019
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Gabriella Safran
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University Gabriella Safran, the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University, teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and... Read More
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Dr. Tatiana Savelieva
Associate Professor, Department of Philology. Chelyabinsk State University, Miass branch Special interests: neo-mythology, mechanisms of mythologization and sacralization of space. Dr. Savelieva has led folklore students into the field on... Read More
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Maslenitsa– songs, stories and Butter Week
The season of Maslenitsa (aka Butter Week, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrovetide) is a great time to be in Russia. Everywhere people celebrate the end of winter and the promise... Read More
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The Funeral of Stroma
Every summer, to bring the rain, the people of Shutilovo make effigies of “Stroma” and her daughter. The pair are laid out as for a funeral, and the villagers gather... Read More
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Manpupuner – Mountain of Idols
Join University of Chelyabinsk professor Tatiana Savelieva and her undergraduate folklore students on their “field trip” to the north Urals where they will document the beliefs and stories that have... Read More
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Russian Old Believer Folklore and Festival of the Honey Savior
The north-east corner of Kazakhstan boasts stunning mountains, verdant valleys, and the majestic Bukhtarma river. The team’s home base will be in the village of Sennoe (pop. 315) where volunteers... Read More
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Settling Siberia
In the last decades under Tsarist rule, millions of Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian peasants quit their home villages in the western empire to head east — to Siberia — for... Read More