“The native language is Tatar.” Mordovian-Karatai Culture as an Example of Interethnic Interaction

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

The Karatai are an ethnographic group of Mordvins, historically living in the KamskoUstinsky district of Tatarstan, whose native language is Tatar. The centuries-old history of this local group is an example of active interethnic interaction in the Volga region. Various aspects of history, material and spiritual culture, and the Karatai language are considered in ethnographic and dialectological literature. Among them are those analyzing hypotheses of the origin of the Karatai, taking into account the obvious Mishar vocabulary of their language; studying the modern area of settlement; features of self-identification. Special attention is paid to the materials of the Mordovian ethnographic expedition, which studied the life and traditions of the Karatai in the 1950s under the guidance of the famous scientist V.N. Belitzer.

About the authors

Marat A. Safarov

VESTI FM radio station of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK)

Author for correspondence.
Email: safarov84@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3009-4055

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Political Observer of the VESTI FM Radio Station

19-21 5th street Yamskogo Polya, Moscow, 125040, Russian Federation

References

  1. Lepekhin, I.I. 1821. “Travel notes.” In The complete collection of scientific travels in Russia, published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at the suggestion of its President: with notes, explanations and additions. Vol. 3, part 1, 2. Travel notes of Academician Lepekhin. St. Petersburg., at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Print. (In Russ.)
  2. Köppen, P.I. 1845. “Karatai, Mordovian knee.” In St. Petersburg Vedomosti, no. 268. Print. (In Russ.)
  3. Rittikh, A.F. 1870. “Mordva”. Materials for ethnography of Russia. Kazan province: at 2 a.m. Kazan. Printing house of Kazan Imperial University, part, no. 14, pp. 223–224. Print. (In Russ.)
  4. Kuznetsov, S.K. 1886. “Message about the Mordvins.” Proceedings of the Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University. Kazan, Printing house of Kazan University. Vol. 6, issue 1. Print. (In Russ).
  5. Paasonen, H. 1903. “Die sogenannten karataj-mordwinen oder karatajen.” J. from the Finno-Ugric Society. Helsingfors, vol. 1–51. Print. (In German).
  6. Filippov, G.A. 1914. Mordvins — Christians. From the life of the village “Mordovian Karatai” and the village “Mensitovo” of the Tetyushsky district of the Kazan province (historical and ethnographic essay). Kazan: Central Printing House. Print. (In Russ.)
  7. Batyrshin, R.R. 2023. “The traditional ceremonial culture of the Mordvins-Karatai at the beginning of the XX century (based on the historical and ethnographic essay by Guriy Filippov “Mordvins are Christians. From the life of the village of Mordovian Karatai and the village of Mensitovo, Tetyushsky district, Kazan province” (1914).” Heritage and modernity, no. 6, pp. 367–375. Print. (In Russ.)
  8. Fedyanovich, T.P. 2011. “Mordva. An ethnographic album.” Materials of the Mordovian ethnographic expedition 1953–1969. Moscow: Nauka publ. Print. (In Russ.)
  9. Fedyanovich, T.P. 2004. “V.N. Belitzer’s studies of the Finno-linguistic peoples of the Volga region and the Urals.” Ethnographic review, no. 5, pp. 112–125. Print. (In Russ.)
  10. Makhmutova, L.T. 1978. The experience of studying Turkic dialects: the Mishar dialect of the Tatar language. Moscow: Nauka publ. Print. (In Russ.)
  11. Arslanov, L.S. 1965. “Some features of the Mordovian-Karatai dialect.” In Ethnogenesis of the Mordovian people: Materials of the scientific session (December 8–10, 1964). Saransk: Mordovian Book Publishing House, pp. 396-401. Print. (In Russ.)
  12. Belitzer, V.N. 2023. “Mordvins and their culture (on the question of origin).” “Forgotten” texts of field expeditions by V.N. Belitzer: in 2 parts. Composed by T.Y. Zadkova. Saransk: NIIGN publ. Print. (In Russ.)
  13. Arslanov, L. Sh. 1991. Mordvinian-Karatai: language and folklore. Kazan: IYALI publ. Print. (In Russ.)
  14. Evseviev, M.E. Mordovia Tatrepublica. 1925. Kazan. Print. (In Russ.)

Copyright (c) 2024 Safarov M.A.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies