The making of "Hero," a drawing of my dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots.Music by Bonobo - Noctuary
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The making of "Hero," a drawing of my dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink
Monday, December 5, 2011
Traditional social organization of the Chechens
The following article on traditional Chechen social organization was (rather surprisingly) copied from the website of the Multicultural Autonomies in Latin America project (link).
Alexej Klutschewsky, Traditional social organisation of the Chechens
—Patrilineages with domination and social control of elder men
The Chechens have a kernel family called dëzel (дёзел) [There are different systems of transcription and/or transliteration for the Chechen language. The forms here could be inconsistent], consisting of a couple and their children. But this kernel family is not isolated from other relatives.
Usually married brethren settled in the neighbourhood and cooperated. This extended family is called "ts'a" (цIа - "men of one house"); the word is etymologically connected with the word for "hearth". The members of a ts'a cooperated in agriculture and animal husbandry.
Affiliated ts'a make up a "neqe" or nek'e (некъий - "people of one lineage"). Every neqe has a real ancestor. Members of a neqe can settle in one hamlet or in one end of a village. They can economically cooperate.
The next group of relatives is the "gar" (гар - "people of one branch"). The members of a gar consider themselves as affiliated, but this can be a mythological affiliation. The gars of some Chechen groups function like taips (s. below).
—Patrilineages with domination and social control of elder men
The Chechens have a kernel family called dëzel (дёзел) [There are different systems of transcription and/or transliteration for the Chechen language. The forms here could be inconsistent], consisting of a couple and their children. But this kernel family is not isolated from other relatives.
Usually married brethren settled in the neighbourhood and cooperated. This extended family is called "ts'a" (цIа - "men of one house"); the word is etymologically connected with the word for "hearth". The members of a ts'a cooperated in agriculture and animal husbandry.
Affiliated ts'a make up a "neqe" or nek'e (некъий - "people of one lineage"). Every neqe has a real ancestor. Members of a neqe can settle in one hamlet or in one end of a village. They can economically cooperate.
The next group of relatives is the "gar" (гар - "people of one branch"). The members of a gar consider themselves as affiliated, but this can be a mythological affiliation. The gars of some Chechen groups function like taips (s. below).
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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