Sergei is an artist. He was born in Elista but moved to Leningradskaya oblast’ in 2009 where now he runs an art studio, Red Star, with his wife Galina. Sergei’s parents are from the village of Aktyubeevka in Astrakhan oblast’. Sergei’s father was also good at drawing, a...

In this interview Bulyash talks about her clan, including its deity-protector and stamp. Question: Are you a Derbet? Bulyash: Yes, I am. And you are a Torghut, right? Question: You said something about people teasing Derbets. Bulyash: ‘Stinky Derbets’. Question: Why wou...

The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual' This collection presents forty-nine audio files including: several folk song genres; folktales and; loc...

This datasets offers a qualitative description of methods used by the members of the Shanghai Native Bankers' Guild to resolve contractual conflicts between 1917 and 1928. A total of 99 commercial conflicts are characterised in this database according to their cause, th...

Photos taken of the Prison of Carabanchel La cárcel de Carabanchel (1944-2008). Estudio histórico, arqueológico y etnográfico. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación HAR2009-09913.

Mgur mo are mostly about love, And are sung to mgur mo lovers. People who sing mgur mo are usually youths between the ages of seventeen and twenty nine, usually when they gather for picnics or parties. They use mgur mo to tell their fortune about their future lover This...

Petr says the following: We lived in Kharabalinsky rayon which was not far from Tsagan-Aman, but on the other bank of the Volga. Our clan is called Baga-Tsokhur. Our clan’s temple was built near Dzhakuevka to commemorate Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812. During th...

Sanjiin Khand is an urtiin duu singer and deputy head of the Ejine Torghut Urtiin Duu Association. She says that her father often sang in the toorai (diversifolious poplar) forest of Ejine when he herded sheep and locals called him toorain duuchin. Her mother was also a...

Skar ma chos mzdin recites a portion of the Ge sar epic This collection presents forty-nine audio files including: several folk song genres; folktales and; local history from the Sman shad Valley of Sde dge County World Oral Literature Project

Multiple-page Excel spreadsheet, containing a complete and sorted blocks data set/geolocalisation