@article{29c2f672-014e-4458-b11d-6c08801bd714,
author = {Stepan  Sturejko},
title = {Establishing and functioning of the Afghan family in Belarus},
journal = {Ethnographies},
volume = {2013},
number = {Volume 41, Issue 1},
year = {2013},
issn = {0083-4327},
pages = {15-27},keywords = {Afghans; family traditions; field work; Belarus},
abstract = {This article is dedicated to detection of family traditions among the Afghans in modern Belarusian environment. The research is based on results of a field work conducted mainly in Belarus in 2009-2012 (it covered 93 informants). It consisted from a series of structured interviews with Afghans who arrived in Belarus and was able to speak Russian. Afghans who failed to learn the language passed a survey. Also I made a series of interviews with a number of Belarusian citizens who are in close cooperation with Afghans.
	
		Family traditions include a wide range of wedding, maternity and funeral traditions, the idea of choosing a spouse, an organization of family life and raising of children. In accordance to the results of survey 52% of Afghans perform traditional rituals of family cycle (mostly positive answer was given by a woman). Within the Belarusian society traditional family rituals are passed significant simplification in comparison with those described in ethnographic research made in Afghanistan},
doi = {10.4467/22999558.PE.13.002.1031},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-etnograficzne/article/sozdanie-i-funktsionirovanie-afganskoi-semi-v-belarusi-nachalo-khkhi-v}
}