Svetlana Ryzhakova
Biographic Data
| ID | 798039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Ryzhakova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryzhakova |
| SIGNATURE | RYZHAKOVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8707-3231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Artistic communities today
This article analyses the ethnographic profile of the several traditional artistic communities, who performed for the public in the specific ethno-cultural spaces and made this their main profession. Traditional performing and visual arts, a matter of national pride in many countries today, until recently were the jobs of grossly socially marginal communities and groups. Often a socially inherited profession, integrated in a system of exchange, a…
In the Memory of Professor Dr. Sergey A. Arutynov (July 1, 1932 — December 21, 2023)
when Sergey Arutynov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, breathed his last Moscow, Russia. He was an ethnographer with extensive experience in field work in many countries of the world, with encyclopedic knowledge in the fields of archaeology, botany, geography, history, and linguistics. He was a world famous scientist, a teacher, a poet, and many more.
Trance and Spirit Possession
Possession in India can be studied at the meeting points of psychology, religious rites, and performing arts. The daivārādhane worship of local deities is the major social and religious institution of Tuḷunādu in South India. Ritual knowledge comes from sacred spirits who can visit humankind in visible forms and through the bodies of mediums. They can possess anyone, address anyone, perform miracles, and influence political and economic affairs. …
Remembering India
Minority Religions and Society
This publication is an overview of the problems and topics raised and analysed within the framework of the International Conference "The Contribution of Minority Religions to Society", organised jointly by Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR) and the Université Bordeaux Montaigne on 12-15 June 2024. The author discusses a wide range of approaches and points of view on the socia…
Aramgarh, Parsi Burial Grounds in India. Materials of the Ethnographic Expeditions 2022–2023
The article presents the author’s field ethnographic material, collected during a visit to several aramgarhs (aramgahs) – burial places of ParsiZoroastrians in India (in particular, in Delhi, Jamshedpur and Bhavnagar). Rich illustrative material is presented. Observations are made about the stylistic features of the design of graves, the social functions they play, and the ambiguity and contradiction of the dаkhmenishini tradition – the display o…
New traditionalism and religions of the South Asia
In the history of religions, in addition to large religious denominations and smaller ethnic specific cults and practices, there are a number of movements that combine local and ethnic features with global trends and patterns. The generalizing designations of such religious forms are diverse: these are folk or traditional religions, movements of social adaptation, archaic social movements, cult renewal or revival, etc. We are talking about the cr…
Sanamahism of meitei
Sanamahism is a noticeable phenomenon in the religious picture of the Indian state of Manipur, the ethno-national religion of the Meitei people, which began to form on the basis of old traditional cults in the 1930s. Adherents of Sanamahism initially opposed their religion as the main form of expression of ethnic identity Meitei (Meiteilon) to Hinduism: they emphasized the forced conversion of Meitei to Hinduism, and the organizations they formed…
Putali, String-Puppets of the Kathmandu Valley, and Their Uses. Materials of the Ethnographic Expedition to Nepal, 2006 Collection
The article presents and analyzes a collection of string puppets called putali, collected by the author in the Thimi, Katmandu valley (Nepal) in 2006. Their main features are revealed. The author identifies the main characteristics and types of those representations in which they are involved
Corpus Totum – Corpus Fractum – Corpus Mysticum. The Body and Its Parts in Religion and Culture
The article presents an analysis of the famous Indian myth about the dissected body of Sati, which became the basis for both a number of philosophical concepts and local cults, linked together by the idea of the wholeness of the dispersed body of the goddess. On a broad historical, cultural and ethnographic material, the author explores the categories of corporeality, ideas about boundaries, identity, belonging, ethics and aesthetics of the body,…
Ceremonial Objects of the Parsis Zoroastrians. Several Items From Mumbai and Kolkata, 2008
The article presents and analyzes a collection of the ceremonial articles of Parsis Zoroastrians, collected by the author in Mumbai and Kolkata in 2008. Their main features and functions are revealed and analyzed
Death for Ideals and Veneration for Death
Nachnis and Rasiks
This paper is based on the study of nachnis, a dancing community in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. The community is still performing albeit in a different form than that has so far been projected in the popular perception and is very different from its past composition and practices. Preserving to some extent the traditional features of jajmani system, danseuses are mostly involved in the local entertainment sphere. In spite of the profo…
Pratimā, Miraculous Images and Their Usage. Materials of the Ethnographic Expedition to Uttaranchal (Now Uttarkhand, Northern India), 2004 Collection
The article presents and analyzes a collection of votive items called pratima, collected by the author in the Garhwal district of the north- Indian state of Uttarkhand (India) in 2004. Their main functions are revealed. A classification of available items is proposed
Evident/Unobvious/Achieved. Sādhanā of Musicians
The essay analyzes sangīt sādhanā, a discipline practiced by musicians performing Indian classical music. On the basis of many conversations, the author identifies the most important forms and aspects of the sacrament associated with the comprehension of music and its performance
Sevā vs Tālīm
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Mages, Conjurers, Acrobats, Jinnes
Miracle. Identification, Description, Attitude
The idea of a miracle is the most important, and sometimes even the main component of religious cultures: “faith” and “miracle” in many cases are closely connected, and even identical. Unusual, amazing events leave an indelible imprint on the emotions and consciousness of the people involved and can be the basis for emerging beliefs. Belief in miracles, as well as miracles as the faith basis, is found in almost all the peoples of the world, altho…
Śabarimala
Welcomed and Unwanted
Manasā is a very important goddess of the eastern part of India, particularly for the lower castes of Bengal, West Assam, some districts of Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. She is the main goddess for the majority of Rajbansis of North Bengal. The fluid border between deities, witches and human beings is an essential part of both her myth and cult. Being a Tāntric deity, Manasā has an extremely ambivalent character: according to the narratives and ri…
Intoxicated by Love
The article presents materials of the ritual drama Modon Kam among the Rajbansi of North Bengal. The action performed during the feast of Chaitra Sankranti (mid-April) includes the performance of the narrator, musicians and young men, dressed as “dancers” of the history of the god Kama (his incineration by Shiva and subsequent revival in the form invisible to people), and then a kind of presentation on the harvested rice a field with a demonstrat…
Trance, Inspiration, Possession
India” in Baltic Cultural Space
This paper is based on the personal experience of author; it points outs the basic references to both real and imagined India in the Baltic states, Latvia in particular. Apart from the global context of fusion of cultures, the 'Indian' -'Baltic' connections lies in national romanticism related to the comparative linguistic, as well as an idea of particular cultural similarities between Indians and Latvians and Lithuanians
Tartuskie besedy o bogakh i demonakh Vostoka
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Tartuskie besedy o bogakh i demonakh Vostoka
8-10 2017 . vernacular, -, - : , -, . 35
Intoxicated by Love
The article presents materials of the ritual drama Modon Kam among the Rajbansi of North Bengal. The action performed during the feast of Chaitra Sankranti (mid-April) includes the performance of the narrator, musicians and young men, dressed as “dancers” of the history of the god Kama (his incineration by Shiva and subsequent revival in the form invisible to people), and then a kind of presentation on the harvested rice a field with a demonstrat…
Trance, Inspiration, Possession
India” in Baltic Cultural Space
This paper is based on the personal experience of author; it points outs the basic references to both real and imagined India in the Baltic states, Latvia in particular. Apart from the global context of fusion of cultures, the 'Indian' -'Baltic' connections lies in national romanticism related to the comparative linguistic, as well as an idea of particular cultural similarities between Indians and Latvians and Lithuanians
Miracle. Identification, Description, Attitude
The idea of a miracle is the most important, and sometimes even the main component of religious cultures: “faith” and “miracle” in many cases are closely connected, and even identical. Unusual, amazing events leave an indelible imprint on the emotions and consciousness of the people involved and can be the basis for emerging beliefs. Belief in miracles, as well as miracles as the faith basis, is found in almost all the peoples of the world, altho…
Śabarimala
Welcomed and Unwanted
Manasā is a very important goddess of the eastern part of India, particularly for the lower castes of Bengal, West Assam, some districts of Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. She is the main goddess for the majority of Rajbansis of North Bengal. The fluid border between deities, witches and human beings is an essential part of both her myth and cult. Being a Tāntric deity, Manasā has an extremely ambivalent character: according to the narratives and ri…
Pratimā, Miraculous Images and Their Usage. Materials of the Ethnographic Expedition to Uttaranchal (Now Uttarkhand, Northern India), 2004 Collection
The article presents and analyzes a collection of votive items called pratima, collected by the author in the Garhwal district of the north- Indian state of Uttarkhand (India) in 2004. Their main functions are revealed. A classification of available items is proposed
Evident/Unobvious/Achieved. Sādhanā of Musicians
The essay analyzes sangīt sādhanā, a discipline practiced by musicians performing Indian classical music. On the basis of many conversations, the author identifies the most important forms and aspects of the sacrament associated with the comprehension of music and its performance
Sevā vs Tālīm
Sev tlm: - . , , . , - , . . (. sev) (tlm
Mages, Conjurers, Acrobats, Jinnes
Putali, String-Puppets of the Kathmandu Valley, and Their Uses. Materials of the Ethnographic Expedition to Nepal, 2006 Collection
The article presents and analyzes a collection of string puppets called putali, collected by the author in the Thimi, Katmandu valley (Nepal) in 2006. Their main features are revealed. The author identifies the main characteristics and types of those representations in which they are involved
Corpus Totum – Corpus Fractum – Corpus Mysticum. The Body and Its Parts in Religion and Culture
The article presents an analysis of the famous Indian myth about the dissected body of Sati, which became the basis for both a number of philosophical concepts and local cults, linked together by the idea of the wholeness of the dispersed body of the goddess. On a broad historical, cultural and ethnographic material, the author explores the categories of corporeality, ideas about boundaries, identity, belonging, ethics and aesthetics of the body,…
Ceremonial Objects of the Parsis Zoroastrians. Several Items From Mumbai and Kolkata, 2008
The article presents and analyzes a collection of the ceremonial articles of Parsis Zoroastrians, collected by the author in Mumbai and Kolkata in 2008. Their main features and functions are revealed and analyzed
Death for Ideals and Veneration for Death
Nachnis and Rasiks
This paper is based on the study of nachnis, a dancing community in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. The community is still performing albeit in a different form than that has so far been projected in the popular perception and is very different from its past composition and practices. Preserving to some extent the traditional features of jajmani system, danseuses are mostly involved in the local entertainment sphere. In spite of the profo…
Aramgarh, Parsi Burial Grounds in India. Materials of the Ethnographic Expeditions 2022–2023
The article presents the author’s field ethnographic material, collected during a visit to several aramgarhs (aramgahs) – burial places of ParsiZoroastrians in India (in particular, in Delhi, Jamshedpur and Bhavnagar). Rich illustrative material is presented. Observations are made about the stylistic features of the design of graves, the social functions they play, and the ambiguity and contradiction of the dаkhmenishini tradition – the display o…
New traditionalism and religions of the South Asia
In the history of religions, in addition to large religious denominations and smaller ethnic specific cults and practices, there are a number of movements that combine local and ethnic features with global trends and patterns. The generalizing designations of such religious forms are diverse: these are folk or traditional religions, movements of social adaptation, archaic social movements, cult renewal or revival, etc. We are talking about the cr…
Sanamahism of meitei
Sanamahism is a noticeable phenomenon in the religious picture of the Indian state of Manipur, the ethno-national religion of the Meitei people, which began to form on the basis of old traditional cults in the 1930s. Adherents of Sanamahism initially opposed their religion as the main form of expression of ethnic identity Meitei (Meiteilon) to Hinduism: they emphasized the forced conversion of Meitei to Hinduism, and the organizations they formed…
In the Memory of Professor Dr. Sergey A. Arutynov (July 1, 1932 — December 21, 2023)
when Sergey Arutynov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, breathed his last Moscow, Russia. He was an ethnographer with extensive experience in field work in many countries of the world, with encyclopedic knowledge in the fields of archaeology, botany, geography, history, and linguistics. He was a world famous scientist, a teacher, a poet, and many more.
Trance and Spirit Possession
Possession in India can be studied at the meeting points of psychology, religious rites, and performing arts. The daivārādhane worship of local deities is the major social and religious institution of Tuḷunādu in South India. Ritual knowledge comes from sacred spirits who can visit humankind in visible forms and through the bodies of mediums. They can possess anyone, address anyone, perform miracles, and influence political and economic affairs. …
Remembering India
Minority Religions and Society
This publication is an overview of the problems and topics raised and analysed within the framework of the International Conference "The Contribution of Minority Religions to Society", organised jointly by Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR) and the Université Bordeaux Montaigne on 12-15 June 2024. The author discusses a wide range of approaches and points of view on the socia…
Artistic communities today
This article analyses the ethnographic profile of the several traditional artistic communities, who performed for the public in the specific ethno-cultural spaces and made this their main profession. Traditional performing and visual arts, a matter of national pride in many countries today, until recently were the jobs of grossly socially marginal communities and groups. Often a socially inherited profession, integrated in a system of exchange, a…
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