%0 Journal Article
%T Establishing and functioning of the Afghan family in Belarus
%A Sturejko, Stepan
%J Ethnographies
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/22999558.PE.13.002.1031
%N Volume 41, Issue 1
%P 15-27
%K Afghans, family traditions, field work, Belarus
%@ 0083-4327
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-etnograficzne/article/sozdanie-i-funktsionirovanie-afganskoi-semi-v-belarusi-nachalo-khkhi-v
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		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