Department of “The folklore of ceremony”

Phone	(+994 12) 4929248
Fax	(+994 12) 4981621
E-mail	merasim_folkloru@folklore.sciense.az
Chief	Agaverdi Sarkhan oglu Khalilov Doctor of Philosopy on Philology, Professor Assistant
Total number of employees	15
Basic activity directions	Making notes of Azerbaijan folk ceremonies, games and plays, investigation of their genesis, structure and typology; investigation of folklore aspects such as some folklore spiritual institutes and values of folklore and ethnograpy as branches of diffision, folk knowledge and believes, archaic ritual elements in folklore, traditional holidays, traditions, behaviour, morality and other ethnic-national characters, problems of family and state-system, national dresses, meal culture and etc.
Main scientific achievements	Folklore termins, Baku, Nurlan, 2010. A. Khalil. Spring holidays of Turkic nations, Baku, 2012

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences