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Moscow Mari: Ethnic Culture in the Internal Diaspora

Research Article
EDN: ZFXXJP DOI: 10.31483/r-100695
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International academic journal «Ethnic Culture». Volume 3
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International academic journal «Ethnic Culture». Volume 3
Author:
Marina V. Kutsaeva 1
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Special Theme of the Issue: Languages and Culture of Finno-Ugric people
Pages:
6-21
Received: 30 November 2021 / Accepted: 22 December 2021 / Published: 27 December 2021

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1 Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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UDC 811.511.151

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of maintaining and preserving Mari ethnic culture in the conditions of an internal diaspora. The purpose of the article is to identify the conditions for maintaining and to determine the prospects for preserving Moscow Maris’ ethnic culture in Moscow’s multicultural urban space. Methods. In 2019–2021, the author of the article conducted a sociolinguistic survey in the Mari diaspora of the Moscow region; the selective sample includes 106 respondents (100 respondents belong to the first generation of the Mari diaspora, six to the second). One of the aspects of the survey was to study markers of ethnic identity in two generations of the diaspora. Results. The results, obtained in the interviews, reveal that Mari culture (knowledge and observance of Mari traditions and customs) is one of the key markers of ethnic identity in the first generation (coming only third after the small homeland and the Mari language markers). Respondents in the second generation demonstrate remnant knowledge of ethnic cultural practices due to a weak intergenerational transmission of the Mari language. The author concludes that in order to preserve ethnic traditions and customs in the diaspora, it is extremely important to maintain an ethnic language; at the same time, as the world practice of revitalizing minority languages shows, ethnic culture can be viewed as a source of initiation into an ethnic language, and later become a channel for its maintenance.

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