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2018 Expedition Announcement
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American Friends
of Russian Folklore

 

It’s here! A preview of our upcoming expedition season!
 
Along with our Russian folklore projects and collaborators, we're adding new expedition leaders and venturing into new territory -- Romania and Moldova.
See more details at the AFRF web site: http://www.russianfolklorefriends.org
     
Modernity and Traditional Belief  -- Romania
Travel to the borderlands of northern Romania and study how modernization, especially in belief systems, has changed rural lives. Our staff will teach you how to conduct fieldwork interviews (through a translator) in the villages of historic Suceava County. Participants can arrange college credit  (6-8 hours) through their home universities.

Approximate dates:  July 29 - August 18, 2018  (3 weeks)

Songs of Belarus
The village of Tyshkovichi, Belarus is more than 500 years old -- help us record the songs handed down over the generations.

Approximate dates: July 24 - August 4, 2018


 
Bryansk district (western Russia) Folklore Expedition
Dates:  Summer 2018
 
Siberian Folklore Expedition
Dates:  Summer 2018
 
"Malanca"  Old Calendar New Year Ritual in Moldova
Assist Dr. Svetlana Sorokina and Dr. Yelena Minyonok as they interview villagers and document the masquerading, play-acting, singing, dancing processions that mark the start of a New Year in rural Moldova. 
 
Approximate Dates: January 4-16, 2019
Take a look:  https://youtu.be/LJ7xu7I_pjE


Questions? You can drop us a line at info@russianfolklorefriends.org   We’d love to hear from you. 
 
All expeditions sponsored by American Friends of Russian Folklore, an American 501(c)(3) organization in its eleventh year of introducing westerners to rural Russia, Ukraine, Belarus - and now Romania and 
Moldova.
 
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