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Sufi burial ceremony in the Chechen village of Mairtup After some shots of the village, the video shows a collective trance ceremony, complete with a beautiful example of male polyphony, followed by a zikr (mystical ritual), accompanied by drums and in which the women of the village also take part(!). For their peculiar use of drums, these Chechen dervishes have been called “barabanshchiki“ (drummers) by the Russian ethnographers. Rough footage from my next movie “A Chechen Confession“. The film will hav