🔥 In this new podcast, Tamara Mazaeva, Chechnya's first female PhD candidate, explores Chechen tradition in its vibrant tension with modernity: from blood feuds to love, from the simple everyday life of Chechens to the cultural threats of the 21st century.
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00:00 Let's begin!
00:06 A Chechen with an Earring
02:48 Unusual Chechen Traditions
04:31 Deprivation of Property (Baital Vakkhar)
07:46 A Mountain of Curses
10:53 A Mother's Blessing
15:44 Revealing Secrets
19:21 Revenge and Forgiveness among Chechens
23:18 Everyone Wore Headdresses
24:37 Blood Feud
32:34 A Chechen Man Can't Cry
35:36 The Forgotten Meaning of Chechen Words
37:25 Marrying for Love
40:32 Five Places to Start a Family
49:41 Belkhi
56:05 Loss of Traditions and a Complex World
58:55 Claims of Elders
01:02:18 The Fleeting Life of Youth
01:05:51 A Strange Myth about Jugs
01:07:29 Teips and Tukhums
01:11:14 The Gift of Children
01:13:25 The Qonakh Woman
01:19:55 The Qonakh Doesn't Belong to Itself
01:21:24 The Arabization of Modern Chechens
01:26:40 Chechen Towers and Ideology
01:28:25 The Richness of the Chechen Language
01:30:14 Chechen Proverbs and Sayings in Russian

The cover features paintings by Rustam Yakhikhanov and Aslan Bugayev.

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