What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range.
Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.
usamerican stupidity has so much range because it can go anywhere from "whoa I can't believe you guys don't have [hyperspecific venue/product such as 7 Eleven or Ben and Jerry's]" to "DUDE ARGENTINA HAS INTERNET??"
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a little.
A Soviet era funerary momunemt in Tavush, Armenia.
Inscriptions: You gave your life in your immortal name, the organiser and founder of the collective farm, you had no complaints, you fell off a fast(?) horse and died.
This is the statue dedicated to Martiros Grigori Tumanyan, born in 1896, died on 17 May(?) 1952. The statue was donated by his brother Armenak and his son Suren.