Ազգային մշակույթի պահապանը. Պետրոս Ալահայտոյան

The article tells about the life and work of an important figure of Armenian national music Betros Alahaidoyan: musicologist, ethnographer, conductor and publicist. A pupil of Barseg Kanachian and specializing in musicology in Europe, he then worked for Brussels State Radio. On the 70th anniversary of the Genocide and the 50th anniversary of Komitas' death, he decided that it is time to do important work for the Armenian nation. Since 1985, leaving his permanent job and place of residence, Alahaidoyan traveled to Armenian communities, nursing homes in Europe, Eastern countries, the USA and made very important documentary and ethnographic records. A huge amount of material containing 430 compact cassettes and 125 reel-to-reel tapes are now in NAS RA Institute of Art, Department of Folk Music: in the audio archive named after Aram Kocharyan. With great love and pride, we undertake to study the material and publish musical and ethnographic collections.

Poltava Region in the Field Ethnographic Research of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Historical Museum (The 1960-80s)

The article is devoted to the review of ethnographic expeditions of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Historical Museum (since 1969 – Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Historical and Cultural Reserve) to Poltava region in the 1960s–80s. Attention is paid to the prehistory of these expeditions. The topics, composition of participants and results of expeditions are analyzed. It is noted that the main task of these expeditions was to identify monuments of folk architecture for the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Dnieper, as well as to collect items of museum importance for the acquisition of ethnographic collections. The result was the museification of six monuments: a house from the village Kuntseve, Novosanzharsky district, a windmill from the village of Popivka,Khorol district, a shed from the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Myrhorod district, barns from the village of Myrhorod district, barns from the villages of Yakhnyky and Vyshneve of Lokhvytsia district. The conclusion about high efficiency of expeditionary activity of a museum in Poltava region is made. This region has become a priority of the museum’s research activities. According to the scale of collection work in Poltava region, the expeditionary activity of museum workers was second only to the survey of rural settlements of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi district of Kyiv region.

“Animated Words, Will Accompany My Gestures” Seismographic Choreographies of Difficult Heritage in Museums

This chapter offers an ethnographic analysis of two choreographic projects – The Sysmograph (2019) by Pélagie Gbaguidi, which addressed the Venetian “Museo del Manicomio. La follia reclusa” in the context of the Ultrasanity symposium in Venice and the planned contribution of Dorothée Munyaneza on the Marseille ethnographic collections in the framework of a symposium during Manifesta 13 (2021). Both choreographies are analysed as performances that sense and mediate traumatic pasts, object agency, and the continuation of modern legacies in museums. The objective of this contribution is to open a discussion on the possibilities of choreographies and dance not as illustrative practices, but as mediating, embodied, translated investigations of active matter, difficult heritage, and the traumatic pasts inscribed in museological narratives, objects, and spaces.

Virtual Ethnographic Collections

This article deals with the process of implementing tools for the digital management of the ethnographic, audiovisual, and archival collections of the Museum of the Indian/FUNAI/Brazil. Focusing on a journey that began in 1996, the article discusses the various strategies used by this museum to offer adequate services to the Brazilian indigenous peoples, including them in the process of production, exhibition, description, and management of their heritage, and using this same heritage to enforce the protection of their fundamental rights inside the Brazilian state. The main argument defended is that the sustainability of documentation and management actions for ethnographic collections is more effective when digital management resources dialog with the social universe from which the cultural assets originated.

The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief

The article* sets the goal of describing the Ukrainian ritual of the sealed grave and its relation to revenants, or the unquiet dead, based both on the author’s fieldwork and ethnographic collections of the turn of the 20th century. The meaning of the ritual and its variants are delineated through folk beliefs and institutionalised Orthodoxy and are defined as one of the main reasons for becoming revenants. Depending on a proper or failed funeral, the dead have different possibilities and time boundaries to visit the living. Together with biological reasons, the ritual of sealing a grave allows a seven-year period of return prior to the grave being finally sealed.

Photogrammetric documentation on archaeological and ethnographic collections of the Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Tucumán, Argentina

This paper presents the creation of tridimensional models by using digital photographic techniques and Structure for Motion software, applied for the particular case of the archaeological and ethnographical collections of the Storage Area of the Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. As a result, we present the workflow elaborated to create the 3D record of the objects belonging to the collection. Our aim is to test possibilities, scopes and limits of this approach applied to the record, research and exhibition in the archaeological and museology fields.

THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: ANCIENT RIPS IN THE KAZAKH OPERA

This paper presents the new evidence that confirms the influence of A.V.Zataevich (direct and mediated) on the work of composers in the genre of opera in Kazakhstan. Relying on the support of various sources, mainly inaccessible and/or forgotten, there is shown the true scale of the use of song and instrumental samples of his musical and ethnographic collections of the «1000 songs of the Kyrgyz people (tunes and melodies)» (1925), «500 Kazakh songs and kuy…» (1931) and piano transcriptions (treatments) that are created in parallel with the collecting activity. In this regard for the first time the variety of forms and results which are opening a real contribution of A.V.Zataevich in the development of the Kazakh opera art is designated., Keywords: сhant, song, folklore, quote, tradition, composer, opera, plot, globalization.