Tatiana Minniyakhmetova

Tatiana Minniyakhmetova, PhD in Ethnology and PhD in Folklore. Independent researcher, Innsbruck, Austria. Academic interests and fields of research: traditional beliefs of Udmurts and peoples of the Volga-Ural region (Russia), folk calendars, ritual, ritual practice, ritual folklore and semantics, the methodology of field work, and diaspora groups. She has conducted about 70 folklore-ethnographic field research projects and is the author and co-author of eight books and more than a hundred articles.