Meadow Mari people
 Meadow Mari woman wearing traditional clothing, c. 1905-1906 | |
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| Meadow Mari language |
The Meadow Mari are a subgroup of the Mari people, a Volga Finnic ethnic group concentrated in the republic of Mari El in Russia. Meadow Mari comprise the majority of Mari in the Mari El republic.[1][2] They live on the right bank of the Volga river, while the Hill Mari people live on the left bank. The ethnogenesis of these two subgroups, and formation of distinct dialects, probably took place in the 14th century. Meadow Mari comprise the majority of Mari, and their language variety is more widespread than the Hill Mari language.[3] Meadow Mari are often considered to be distinct from the related Eastern Mari living in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.[2][4]
Meadow Mari mainly practice traditional Mari religion.[5] They are believed to be descendants of the Azelinskaya culture.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Anttonen 1998, p. 143
- ^ a b Anttonen 2002, p. 27
- ^ Kondrashkina 2023, p. 134
- ^ Vedernikova 2014, p. 187
- ^ Ruotsala 2008, p. 67
- ^ Krasnova et al. 2017, p. 22
Bibliography
[edit]- Anttonen, Veikko (1998). "The representation of sürem sacrificial ritual among the present-day Meadow-Mari population in Russia" (PDF). Acta Ethnographica Hungarica. 43 (1–2): 143–149.
- Anttonen, Veikko (2002). "Transmission of Ritual Tradition among the Rural Meadow-Mari Population in the Post-Soviet Political Context" (PDF). Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica. 12: 27–36.
- Krasnova, Nadezhda; Riese, Timothy; Yefremova, Tatiana; Bradley, Jeremy (2017). Reading Hill Mari Through Meadow Mari. University of Vienna.
- Kondrashkina, Elena (2023). "Формирование этнической идентичности народа мари в условиях отсутствия единого марийского литературного языка" [Formation of Ethnic Identity of Mari People in Absence of Single Mari Literary Language]. Nauchnyi dialog (in Russian). 12 (4): 130–149. doi:10.24224/2227-1295-2023-12-4-130-149.
- Ruotsala, Helena (2008). "Let the Earth Be Light Upon You: Remembering the Dead in a Meadow Mari Village". In Johanne Håland, Evy (ed.). Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 63–83. ISBN 9781443815178. OCLC 828870158.
- Vedernikova, Elena (2014). "Impact of native culture and religion on the Mari language". Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics. 5 (2): 185–203. doi:10.12697/jeful.2014.5.2.09. ISSN 2228-1339.