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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES)

Cambridge University

A day in a traditional Kalmyk family begins with the opening of the curtains to let light in, cooking breakfast, and attending to the family altar. It is usually the young bride"s duty to wake up first, cook, look after the household, put offerings on the altar, and go to bed last. During the day every member of the family is assigned activities based on gender, age, and hierarchy. Men are supposed to be bread-winners, undertake physically demanding chores, and represent the family, whereas women

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7:55

Tatyana Dordzhieva, About My Altar

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/12/26

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4:14

Sofya Olzeeva, About Family Traditions

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/12/26

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19:02

Yuriy Nurdaev, About the Kalmyk Language

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/07/11

Yuriy says that until recently people in his native village of Sarpa spoke Kalmyk on a daily basis. Today many young people try to revive Kalmyk, although the accent they speak is different from those of the older generation.

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3:40

Narma Mergenova, About the Daily Routine of the...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/06/16

Narma talks about what the daily routine of old people was like when she was young. Old people started their day with a cup of tea, which was followed by reciting prayers and lighting a candle on the altar. Afterwards, they helped their children to clean the yard. If there was no other work that needed attention, they read mantras and counted beads on their rosaries. The oldest people who could not do physical work gave orders to others. Old people also tried to observe all fasting days, on the 8th,

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1:29

Narma Mergenova, About the Current State of the...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/06/16

Narma bemoans that young people do not know their native tongue anymore. She puts it down to their parents who either do not know the Kalmyk language themselves or do not use it on a daily basis. Many young people say that they do not need to know Kalmyk.

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2:32

Maria Pozharova, About the Kalmyk Language and...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/06/16

Maria says that the loss of native language and traditions is bad for any nation because traditions teach people how to live ‘moral’ lives.

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3:16

Vera Tepkeeva, About a Local Dialect

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/06/16

Vera is from the village of Dzhalykovo in Laganskiy rayon, which is home to four clans, including Iki-Bagud, Doyda-Bagud, Tsatan and Kharakhus. Vera herself is from the Iki-Bagud clan who speak a specific dialect. For example, instead of the suffix –i or –ya, they use the suffix –yala.

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9:41

Sergei Muchiryaev, About a Rupture Between Generations

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/12

Sergei reminisces that in his youth there were many artists and writers around who remembered the old way of life. Since young people were not supposed to pester the elders with questions, the young did not learn much. On top of that, the elders, who had spent hard times in prisons, were reluctant to talk about their experiences with younger people. In Siberia Sergei lived in a small village in the middle of nowhere. His mother was young and not very knowledgeable of Kalmyk customs. Sergei had no

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5:40

Sanal Bovaev, About the Love of Knowledge Among the...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/05

Sanal says that at weddings he never heard people ask each other about material wealth. People are more interested in learning about one’s educational level. Even poor families try to send their children to the best universities in Russia and beyond.

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9:21

Vasiliy Sukhotaev, About the Current State of the...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/05

My maternal grandmother was illiterate and spoke only Kalmyk. She died at 90. She told me many fairy tales and recited many poems. Now we, who became old ourselves, have forgotten how to tell fairy tales to our grandchildren. At home we use Kalmyk minimally. In small villages and farms, in contrast, people still speak Kalmyk. In urban areas families that use Kalmyk on a daily basis are rare. When I go to weddings I rarely hear Kalmyk speech. Sometimes one side speaks Kalmyk, but the other side does

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Dordzhi Nandyshev, Beliefs Connected with the Whirlwind

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/04

Dordzhi says that Kalmyks believe each whirlwind to have an old evil spirit (shulm) sitting in the middle of it. There is a custom to spit three times and through a sharp object into the whirlwind. After this, according to old men, the whirlwind ‘bleeds’.

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Dordzhi Nandyshev, About Stealing Among Kalmyks

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/04

Dordzhi says the following: In the past Kalmyks used to send their maternal uncles to the land of the Coccacks. Such uncles returned with a bull and distributed its meat among the elderly men, having taking home as much meat as they needed. It is considered alright for Kalmyks to steal the following animals or objects: a hound, a knife, Buddhist texts, and Buddhist statues. Here is a story about theft that I heard from my mother. In the past there was a hoton (nomadic settlement) that consisted of

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Dordzhi Barkhaev, About Traditional Education

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/04

Dordzhi says that in the past boys and girls were brought up differently: In the past the Kalmyks used a vertical script. But when I started school, we already used the Latin Script and later the Cyrillic. In the past, a boy’s birth was a reason for joy and celebrations. People killed a sheep and threw a sheep’s head through the roof hole of their tents. Boys and girls were brought up differently. Girls were taught how to cook and sew. Boys, in contrast, were taught how to look after livestock. My

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Nikolai Khatuev, About Traditional Upbringing

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/05/04

Nikolai says that in the past Kalmyk upbringing did not involve scolding children. People taught their children through legends, proverbs and sayings. When a child broke something, the parents could have said something like this: ‘A good child keeps what his father has accumulated, and a bad one only wastes or breaks inheritance’. Girls were brought up by their mothers, for the marriageability of girls depended on their skills and ability to do the household chores.

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3:52

Bembya Mitruev, About a Rupture Between Generations

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2019/04/28

In Kalmykia, a link between generations was severed for a number of reasons, including Stalinist exile . Because of this, we do not have much information about what was going on in Kalmykia in the past. For example, we know precious little about the clothes that monks wore in Kalmykia. Nobody knows exactly how different parts of the monastic clothes were named. Old photos and paintings show that the monastic clothes were different from those worn by monks in Mongolia and Tibet. No one knows about

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9:23

Tatyana Dzhambinova, About the Importance of...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2018/12/24

This is her story: Although as a historical social institution, the family changes over time, it is important to combine healthy conservatism and innovations. When she was setting up the Institute for Noble Maidens, tsarina Catherine II said that, ‘All bad things come from bad education’ and pointed to the importance of correctly educating parents themselves. Historically, the first type of family was based on patriarchal values when the husband was the sole breadwinner and the wife stayed at

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Galina Mamonova, About How My Grandparents Treated...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2018/10/28

Both my grandparents never touched our cat. They always said to me that I should not touch pets and domestic animals – our cat, the chickens in the yard, and our dog – and let animals go wherever they wanted to. If a stray dog wandered into our yard, my grandmother always told me to give it some food. My grandfather often said that a stray dog could be a relative of ours that was reborn as a canine. It is interesting that they said nothing of this to my parents.

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6:29

Yuriy Obgenov, About the Village of Nayntakhn and Its...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2018/07/19

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Vladimir Ubushiev, About Clans and Arvn Groupings in...

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2018/07/19

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5:31

Kanur Nadvidov, About Nayntakhn Village

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (DAILY ACTIVITIES) ·

2018/07/19

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