Global Musings

This blog seeks to explore the world through its people and the diversity of their cultures, art, music, cinema, architecture, philosophies, traditions, beauty standards and lifestyles

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Kurdish Girl Knits a Hat, 1962

Location:  Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Bashkir Costumes | Bashkortostan, Russia

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Qazaq Handygy. Altyn Taq. (Kazakh Khanate: Golden Throne), 2019, Rustem Abdrashev

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Armenia. Tavush. 2013.

"Emma Arzumanyan is 75 years old. She picks fruit in the forest outside the small town of Ayrum where she lives. We came across Emma and her daughter picking berries on the edge of the forest. Emma looked very fragile in her big pale blue cardigan that had massive holes in the elbows (from catching on the thorns). She had scratches covering her hands and wrists from the thorns on the berry bushes. And when she stepped through the bushes to get nearer to the ripest berries, her flimsy long skirt caught on the bushes revealing more scratches on her ankles and legs. “I started picking fruit to earn money when my husband died. If I can sell my fruit at the roadside market, I will get 300 drams a kilo .. around 1, 000 drams for a full bucket. I get a small pension, but I don’t have another income. I live with my daughter in one room. I know that the processing plant will be opening next year and I’m hopeful it will help me with guaranteed sales and fixed prices.”

Cristina Garcia Rodero

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God Tests Abraham  - Alexander Antoniuk

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Tapestry by Mykharbi Kokonov from Adyghe Republic, Russia

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“le costume populaire russe" 

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"Kryashens (Kryashen: кряшенняр, Tatar: керәшен(нәр), [k(e)ræˈʃen(nær)], Russian: кряшены; sometimes called Baptised Tatars(Russian: крещёные тата́ры)) are a sub-group of the Volga Tatars, frequently referred to as one of the minority ethnic groups in Russia. They are mostly found in Tatarstan and in Udmurtia, Bashkortostan and Chelyabinsk Oblast. They are considered different to the larger group of Tatars that have converted to Christianity.

Kryashens are Orthodox Christians and some of them regard themselves as being different from other Tatars even though most Kryashen dialects differ only slightly from the Central dialect of the and do not differ from the accents of the Tatar Muslims in the same areas. Tatar language.

The 2010 census recorded 34,882 Kryashen in Russia.

Ethnographers and historians associate the formation of groups of Kryashens with the process of voluntary and violent Christianization in the 16-19 centuries. However, according to the theological researcher from St. Petersburg, Evgeny Barkar, the Kryashens are the descendants of pagan Kipchaks who did not convert to Islam."

- Wikipedia

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Tӧӧlӧs Turkic girl from Altai, Russia

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Azeri Man

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Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR (1966)

Poster by Karel Teissig

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Region of Beskid Żywiecki, southern Poland.

Photography © Barbara Kubska, via wgmedia.eu

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Erzya costumes, Simbir, Karsun region, end of 19th c. and Simbir, Buin, end of 19th c.

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◾Serbian man dressed in traditional clothes from Central Serbia 🇷🇸

◾Source: Bendjo Academy

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Khlib i Sil/Хліб і сіль (Bread and Salt) | Grigori Kokhan and Nikolai Makarenko | USSR (Soviet Ukraine) | 1970

"A group of peasant farmers in turn-of-the-century Ukraine leaves home in search of better luck in Siberia. The story follows those who stay behind and their dispute with the landowner, as well as a love triangle involving a local beauty and two young men."

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Mother - Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny

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The Goat Horn (Козият рог) | 1972 | Metodi Andonov | Bulgaria