Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project Website

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The Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project aims to video-audio document Kalmyk culture in the broadest sense and to produce a comprehensive database on the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks in Russia and their kinsmen, the Torghuts, in China. The project hopes that this on-line knowledge will not only provide the communities with a resource that they can draw upon to compare, study and popularise their culture but also contribute to cultural preservation and revitalisation both in Kalmykia and beyond.

The majority of documentation will be carried out in the Republic of Kalmykia - the focus area of the project - and the adjacent Astrakhan region. In China, we will document the cultural heritage preservation activities in three widely dispersed Oirat/Torghut communities: Chengde /Weichang in Hebei, Ejene in Inner Mongolia, and Bortala/Hoboksar in Xinjiang, respectively. The project is a collaborative endeavor involving international academics from the UK, Mongolia, Russia, China and other countries.

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project

MIASU

http://www.kalmykheritage.socanth.cam.ac.uk/en/index.php

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