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Department of ceremonial folklore and national culinary tradition
Phone (+994 12) 4981621 
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E-mail merasim2022@gmail.com
Chief 

Agaverdi Sarkhan oglu Khalilov  

Total number of employees 17
Basic activity directions   Recording of Azerbaijani folk ceremonies, games and performances, studying their genesis, structure and typology; study of spiritual institutions and values, folk knowledge, beliefs, archaic ritual elements in folklore, traditional holidays, customs, behavior, morality and other ethnic-national characteristics in folklore, family and statehood issues, national clothing, food culture and other aspects of folklore as diffuse areas of folklore and ethnography     
Main scientific achievements 

1.Agaverdi Khalil. Spring holidays of the Turkic peoples and Novruz. Baku, Science and Education, 2013, 150 p.

2.Agaverdi Khalil. Folklore and statehood. Baku, Science and Education, 2014, 84 p.

3.Ceremonial folklore traditions. Book I. 2021, Baku, Science and Education, 218 p.

4.Agaverdi Khalil, Nubar Hakimova. Heydar Aliyev and Azerbaijani ceremonial culture. Baku, Science and Education, 2023, 201 p.

5.Shahla Akif gizi Huseynli. Epic formulas in Azerbaijani folklore, Baku, 2019, 184 p.

6.Atesh Shovket oglu Ahmadli. Traditional storytelling art (based on the Shirvan folklore environment). Baku, Science and Education, 2018, 220 p.

7.Atif Islam oglu Islamzadeh. The mythological structure of the image of Kazan Khan in the Oghuz epic tradition. Baku, Science and Education, 2017, 238 p.

8.Vafa Muradkhan gizi Ibrahimova. Research and translation issues of Azerbaijani folklore in English-language sources. Baku, Shams, 2010, 186 p.

9.Traditions of ceremonial folklore. Book II. 2023, Baku, Science and Education, 250 p.

10.Traditions of ceremonial folklore. Book III. 2025, Baku, Science and Education, 220 p.