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Last Webinar, December 2021 - Christmas Customs, Masking and Mumming, Winter Ceremoniesillage feasts, etc.
We are pleased to announce that a Special Christmas 2021 edition of our Ritual Year Seasonal Webinar series is now ready.
The meeting will take place on Monday, 13 December 2021, 16:00 Tallinn time (14:00 GMT) via MS Teams and will be dedicated to Udmurt winter traditions.
The titles and the abstracts of the presentations are as following:
1. Tatiana Vladykina (Udmurt Federal Research Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Tatiana Panina (Udmurt Federal Research Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and Galina Glukhova (Udmurt State University) will take about The Winter Cycle of Udmurt Calendar Rituals.
2. Tatiana Minniyakhmetova(Independent Researcher, Austria) will talk about her latest book, In Search of Udmurt “Pearls” in Estonian Archives.
Various classical folklore types are represented in the Estonian archives. There is also a big collection on Udmurt oral heritage. Material for the book “In search of Udmurt pearls in Estonian archives” (Tartu: EKM Teaduskirjastus, 2020; 216 p.) was collected from the Folklore Archive of the Estonian Literary Museum, from the archives of the University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum, Institute for Estonian language, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and some private archives of the Estonian colleagues. The book contains notes on the history of the study of the Udmurts by scientists from Estonia in chronological order, a list of catalogues, deciphered archival texts on the Udmurt tradition with their literal translation into Russian and commentaries.
https://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/sator/sator20/sator20.pdf
3. Eva Toulouze (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris & Tartu University) will give a talk about Udmurt Mythology and Folklore, commenting on the latest publication of the Estonian Literary Museum.
4. At the end we are going to see fragments of Tol mör vös [Winter intervillage ceremony], an ethnographic film by Liivo Niglas, filmed in December 2016, Novye Tatyshly, Tatyshly district, Bashkortostan.
As in parallel with the summer cycle, there is also a winter cycle in the sacrificial ceremonies of the Tatyshly Udmurt, who escaped evangelisation and live in a tolerant Muslim environment. The winter ceremonies are more modest than the summer ones: there is in the district only one village ceremony (against 19 in summer) and one ceremony gathering three-four villages.The goal is to obtain the favour of the main deity, Inmar-Kylchin, to whom is addressed a sacrifice and the offerings of the villagers. As the summer ceremonies, the winter ceremony is led by the village’s sacrificial priests. The movie was filmed during an expedition organized with Liivo Niglas, Eva Toulouze and Nikolai Anisimov, in the framework of a French I.U.F. project about the religion of the Eastern Udmurt.
The webinar and the discussions will be moderated by Irina Sedakova and Mare Koiva.
As usual, our e-meeting will be hosted by the Estonian Literary Museum and the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (Tartu).
All Webinars of the Ritual Year WG are available https://www.siefhome.org/wg/ry/seasonal_webinars.shtml
or
at the web of the Department of Folkloristicsat the ELM https://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/loeng/ - NB! lectures are in different languages!
Yours,Irina Stahl
Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy
SIEF Executive Board Member
Secretary, The Ritual Year WG (SIEF)
