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The article describes the main spatial properties of traditional cultural landscape of the Evenks in South Yakutia. The study is based on the of field research conducted on key areas of Evenks in South Yakutia – interviews, representation modelling, observations – and the use of Sentinel 2A remote sensing for mapping and contextualising the geographic environment of living places. The characteristic features of the territory of traditional use of natural resources is described; more especially the relations betwee...

This article presents the problem of postmodernism in the Contemporary Society and what is the impact for the human life and for the Orthodox Church. Through a sort of affordability backed by the thirst for crazy survival and consumption, the postmodern society promotes a number of taboos that depersonalizes the human nature in its existential meaning. Drugs, exacerbated eroticism, pathological personality disorders, are the result of the lack of an alternative. Therefore, the principal role of the Christianity is...

The paper, based on the field ethnographic data of the researcher, is dedicated to Nauryz (Navruz) or New Year - the holiday of awakening and resurrection of nature. Great importance is given to the preparation of ritual food - "Nauryz kozhe" or "nauryzdy?". This dish is supposed to consist of seven food components: meat, wheat, rice, etc. The main characteristic feature of this ceremonial meal is a sign of abundance, which is habitually interpreted in connection with the "magic of the first day", meaning that the...

The article deals with the topic of metaphoric aspect of flowers nomination, reflecting anthropological links between different semiotic systems. We regard the metaphoric field of flowers from the point of view of semiotics and symbolism. The main aim is to present the results of a comparison of two sign systems – the systems of linguistic and flower languages. The main task of our research is closely connected with the possibility of distinguishing and describing the so called language of flowers. We suggest that...

The significance of the theme lies in posing the question of strengthening of collective identities through development of modern forms of culture, creative industries, in particular. The aim of the article is to show that clusters of creative industries compose innovative part of urban space without any damage to traditional landscapes of urban culture but through providing variety and attractiveness. The author names the causes of instability of sociocultural pictures of the world connecting it with sophisticati...

The article is devoted to the study of the theory and methods of linguistic analysis of the folklore text. Material for the study consists of Tatar folk tales, baity (tragic folk song). In the study of the vocabulary taken into account baity dedicated to any historical events or personalities, describes the dramatic fate of the women, or personal tragedy. The leading method of research was used such as analysis, observation, experiment, generalization. The use of verbs in fairy tales and in baity has its own chara...

The paper discusses the pictorial data received in the survey in 1994 and 2012 as the result of the task consisting in drawing a picture of a representative of a given nation. Treated as evidence of mental representations, the pictures are examined on account of the occurrence of the traces of the past and studied as manifestations of dynamic collective memory of the group.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new political and cultural situation. The society of Internationalism cracked, and old ethnic tensions have gained new forms. All this found its expression in many and varied ethnophaulisms. In this article, the authors try to trace the various slurs constructed with the assistance of the nutritional and vestimentary metaphors. They also make the assumption that the abundance of food metaphors for marking the Other/Alien shows that the food problem is percei...

This article observes the Udagan's culture of the Yakuts. The authors concentrate on the study of the Udagan’s culture based on materials of the Yakut epos – Olonkho. The authors associate this phenomenon of culture with early religious ideas of the Yakuts and believe that it presents an early layer of culture. The word “udagan” as a term is referred to the languages of the Turkic-Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu peoples. However, the authors state that the Ugadan culture as a layer of culture is typical for the Yakuts an...

The question about prospects of saving lifestyle, culture and languages of the Russian northern peoples becomes relevant in connection with the Arctic and Russian northern areas industrial development. Main results of ethnosociological research conducted within the project "Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight – 2050" are presented in the article: a) analysis and forecast of changes in Sakha people identity, language and culture transmission considering urbanization process and generational dynamics; b) basis for ...

This study is a comparative analysis of the specific features of traditional culture in China, Korea, and Japan, which were based on literary games and included ritual wine drinking. The games and rituals of the “wine order” existed for over 2000 years in East Asia as a form of entertainment for the elite. In the East Asia region the special wine culture had played not a minor role along with intellectual game traditions and practices of the poetized attitude to wine drinking have engrained in the representati...

Settlement of socio-economic problems generated by industrialization and globalization requires collaboration and effective cooperation between institutions as well as between socio-professional categories involved in economic activities. The Church's mission is not political, economic or social one, but an essentially religious mission, which is to proclaim the Gospel, to the fulfilment of redemption accomplished by Christ. The duty of the Church is to appeal to those responsible of civil life, so they work in or...

The aim of the study is to identify the value orientations of modern Russian youth which are fundamental in the process of family self-determination. The main task is to identify those values, which determine the process of constructing the family image and comprehension of axiological essence of marriage and childbirth. The identification is based on the analysis of structural and informative interpretations of the “happy family” concept perceived by the today's youth. The analysis of the processes associated...

A reality of an undeniable evidence, that does not require any argument, springs from an exhaustive, philosophical, psychological or sociological research, is certainly the love. This human phenomenon, impregnated with a specific complexity, it is felt, experienced and lived by every human being both on a personal level, in its uniqueness, as well as on the interpersonal level, in the society. Due to its complexity, human love can be perceived and lived, by a certain part of society, as a blind and irresistible pa...

The family of first people, as it is recognized by all developed cultures of human society, the one which consists of Adam and Eve is, naturally, the prototype of the natural family. This natural family, consisting of a man and a woman, has received, along the history of human civilization, the traditional family name. There are currently some anthropological current which refuses to be used this expression about the family. These tendencies want to discredit the traditional family and to promote other types of fa...

Without a doubt, culture is one of the most important characteristics of humans. Technology affects all societies, past and present, to a significant extent and the world of post-humans can only be shaped with the assistance of new technologies. In this article, I will discuss the formation of artificial cultures and try to outline the main features of a society with an artificial culture. The main premise is the recognition of the importance of technology in the formation of post-humans and their cultures. The di...

The aim of the research is investigation of a new phenomenon taking place in mass and information discourse called genre constellation. It is a new term for studies of text, genre and discourse. In linguistics it was used first by Danish scientist L. Hjelmslev. He introduced it to describe correlations in language structure, when two elements are compatible but one doesn't suppose presence of the other. In our work we use the term “genre constellation” to denote a special type of interaction between genres whe...

The article deals with the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the human prenatal development. Due to the increase of high reproductive technologies application around the world including Russia the Russian Orthodox Church admits the necessity of stating its own opinion of the human embryo value. The research is based on the analysis of hagiographical materials, biblical texts, liturgical tradition, church iconography, patristic heritage. The paper concludes that the Russian Church considers the human Embry...

The way one culture perceives another one is a multifaceted social and historical phenomenon. Historical, political, social context forms the basis of attitudes and perceptions. The perception of the “Hebrew text” demonstrated by European cultures is a specific model. The traditional opposition “self-other” becomes actualised in the relations towards the Jews. The opposition is a universal indicator of the attitude towards other people within the same culture. A specific model of religious, social and dome...

The aim of this article is to understand deeper the relationship between the communion with God carried out through the most important Christian celebration, the Eucharist, and the community that celebrates it, the Church, as seen by the Catholic theologian Odo Casel (1886-1948). First we explain why Odo Casel is considered to be the greatest liturgical theologian of the beginning of the 20th century. It was he who found the real and the earliest meaning of terms „mystery” or sacrament and „memorial”, but ...

Every human being, endowed with a healthy mind and body, at an appropriate age, enters into the normal labour climate. We see everywhere people who work with their arms and minds. Work is an existential dimension of the human being. Depending on how it is designed and built, work has unsuspected potentialities. Some people see the work as their chance to acquire as many material possessions, and considers it as the only source to acquire it, in order to meet their tastes, pleasures, their own convenience or vaingl...

The practice of religious tourism is a complex phenomenon that aims visiting the religious buildings, as well as promoting the cultural and spiritual values. Social behaviours, ritual practices, motivations, destinations and manifestations of the pilgrimage have become more diversified throughout history, depending on the requirements and on the specificities of socio-cultural realities. The analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon can be addressed both quantitatively and qualitatively (the analysis of pilgrims relig...

Man has always had in front of him the problem of eternity and has noticed that the priority given to the matters related to the organization of the eartly life, without the perspective of living the spiritual dimension of life, leads to man's confinement into the social and political dimension of life. Constrained by the limits of his own life, man feels the need to look for the Truth, fact which proves that he is made up of body and soul, having not just bodily needs but also especially psychic (related to the s...

The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of faith, a way of human righteousness in front of God in Paul's Letter to the Romans. In order to respond to the question of faith as a way of righteousness, after some premises that concern the confessional debates about the main theme of the epistle, our attention will turn to the exegesis of Romans 3:21-26. The exegetic analysis will highlight the two important poles: on one side the righteousness of God, on the other side the faith of the people. The second pa...

Looking beyond the concept of national canons and their selective forgetting of mixed and hybrid pasts, the aim of the paper is to look at the Eastern Adriatic in an anthropological perspective as a historical space which has been shaped by the complexity of migratory processes and interactions between the components of the “eternal triangle” (heredity, environment and culture). We will present the comprehensive results of the holistic anthropological research conducted for several decades in the area, based o...

The efforts to improve the people's living conditions are effective only if they have, as a solid foundation, the citizen's right to private property. This property, even if it can be obtained through inheritance or donation, however, usually is obtained through his work by each person within family, professional associations or labour groups. The purpose whereon the man proposes, as a result of its activities, is the private property, the fruit of his labour. The worker, investing its forces and capabilities in t...

Discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological perspective can be very useful for the study of stereotypes which can be defined as cognitive representation of social groups. Individuals define and redefine stereotypes using speech forms in is the process of categorizing and self-categorisation. The article focused on examining representations of Polish migrants in the media discourse in four the most opinion-forming dailies. The collected analytical data consisted of 391 articles. It was noted that (1) dis...

The appearance of the social media has led the mankind to a new era of social development and social relations, when the exchange and the production of information has become the major human activity. The present article studies the development of Twitter as a cultural phenomenon in Russia and in Great Britain, thus showing that the digital age of social media has enabled cross-cultural communication to become mass scale, supranational and global. Social networks as well as blogging systems involve a person not on...

This article is devoted to the study of communication in behavioural practices Tungus in Northern Siberia. The main results of the study of traditional and modern etiquette; special attention is paid to communication issues of intercultural dialogue. Keywords: ethnography of communication, symbolic anthropology, Northern Tungus, cultural codes, traditional etiquette, behavioral culture, the Person and Nature, valuable orientations, models of social interaction. In this article I would like to highlight the communi...

The increasing mobility of people, the improvement of the mass travel as well as the accommodation and recreational infrastructure development facilitate the tourism activities, and implicitly encourage visiting the Holy Places. Often, the offers of travel agencies neglect the intrinsic aspects of a genuine pilgrimage: the spiritual aspects, the proposal of a faith itinerary and the conservation of sacred aspects into the pilgrimage to the Holy Places. This confusion and the lack of involvement on the part of the ...

The community rites performed in the sacred space of the extra funerary votive crucifixes become social artifacts of social communication, supporting the interpersonal relationships within the same nation or community. The direct experience on the subject has been proven by designing, developing and disseminating the project on "Votive Crucifixes and Border Crosses. Their Role and Meaning in the Life of Rural Settlements in Olt County". The project was developed by the Olt Center for Preservation and Development o...

This paper is focused on both the anthropological and biblical theme. The work aims to present a few aspects of the disciple's figure in the Bible, especially in the Gospel of Saint Mathew. In the Gospels, the disciples followed the Saviour and were witnesses of his wonderful words and deeds. After they learned at the school of Jesus, they were sent to continue the work of spreading God's Kingdom. With respect to the theme, the first step is analytical: some general elements of the identity regarding the disciples...

The purpose of this study is to present some aspects of the symbolism of human clothing in the Book of Revelation. The theme is biblical with regard to anthropology. The work has as starting point some general considerations about the various symbolisms in Revelation, especially the anthropological symbolism. As exemplification, we use a short exegesis of three images: The Son of Man (Revelation 1:12-20), the Woman crowed with 12 stars (Revelation 12); the clothes of saints (Revelation 7:12-17; 19:7-8). The analys...

Even, as well as other nations, traditional lifestyle, worshiped fire. According the belief of the Evens, the spirit of fire was called - Tov hinkenni (hinken muhon), consulted with him, "treated" after a successful hunt, or have been asked to them luck to home and the spirits of the locality took them well. The hearth was located in the midst of the tent, and in the way, hunting or fishing for cooking a fire was near the tent. Fireplace served as the sacred center of the home, the abode of the spirits of the hous...

Cross-cultural relations in the frontier area are distinguished by specific characteristics and complexity, due to the fact that frontier itself is a heterotopic space. There is no conventional typology of this type of relations that could be applicable to any Russian frontier (the Low Volga Region, Siberian, Caucasian, etc.). The article proposes original variant of cross-cultural communication typology of the early frontier of the North Caucasus region. We have identified three types of cross-cultural contacts: ...

Nowadays music comprises a vital element of individually shaped acoustic human environment and appears in the public space, often as an acoustic wallpaper imposed on a listener. The aim of the paper will be to present the most significant aspects of the debate on the presence of background music in the public space in Poland, initiated in the 1960s by one of the major composers of the 20th century – Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) and recalled in 2013 (in the year of celebration of the centenary of his birth). Hi...

The breakdown of the empire statehood and the establishment of soviet statehood in Russia were accompanied by the revision of the social roles of many members of the society and communities, including the university teaching community. The article is devoted to the crisis of the corporate identity of the university lecturers in Russia in the first years after the revolution (1917 – early 1920's.). According to the authors the crisis was caused by various factors. Firstly, if at the past, pre-revolutionary, socia...

Democracy and the religious manifestations should not be opposite or divergent; on the contrary, they are complementary, if man's freedom is respected and correlated, however, to the perennial values of mankind and not to the various ways of falling from these values. Sociologists, philosophers, theologians (generically speaking), politologists and historians along with many other people with cultural and scientific concerns are looking for a new vision on the relation between democracy and religion, and on the ro...

A lot of writers, academic researchers and publicists recognized in Latvia have written gastronomic texts. The year of 2012 is the culmination of gastronomic texts. This year and about this time, academic research on the vocabulary of culinary heritage in Latvia, as well as cookery books by writers and prominent people have been published. Actually, the latter are not instructions in culinary but rather narratives about interesting personalities, recipes given by classics of Latvian literature or their relations, ...

This article represents an attempt to reconstruct the history of scientific and educational community in Tomsk throughout two decades (1920-1930s) on the basis of both published and unpublished sources. For the first time authors have formulated the notion of crisis of university lecturers' corporate identity influenced by shaping of the Soviet state based on regional example. Factors of formation and manifestation of scientific and educational community corporate identity have been discerned and analyzed. Special...

Religiously the Tunguses (Evens and Evenks of Yakutia) were the pagans and the shamanism believers. Among them the cult of hunting magic, also of a reindeer and of the Sun was strongly developed. Before the Soviet power among the Evens and the Evenks shamanism was as a national religion. According to the traditional Tungus view, the world was divided into three mental spheres: the upper World, the Middle World and the Lower World. Shamans were the mediators acting between those three worlds, Gods, spirits and men....

The aim of the given investigation is to find out various definitions and comparing characteristics of antonyms on the basis of synchronous analyses. The article is dedicated to research of antonyms in different structural languages. In order to reveal the nature of antonyms it is necessary to investigate their essence but concerning this question there is no settled opinion. The review of existed approaches to antonyms in linguistics opens the lack of united view on this problem. There is no satisfactory solution...

"What does it matter who is speaking?" asks Foucault in What is an author?. In that text Foucault proclaims the death of the author, as well as only a few years before he had shown another death, that of the subject. In both cases, it is properly a matter of disappearance: the subject and the author establish the representation, but they disappear from the scene, because they are no more represented, as it happens to Philip IV in Velazquez's picture Las Meninas, to which Foucault devotes the first chapter of The O...

Currently folklore genres are actively researched. Their study exposed the various aspects of folklore . There are lexical, syntactic aspects of genres of folk arts analysis. Also cultural component is studied. Cultural aspect is believed to be of great importance, as it reflects the way people used to perceive surrounding reality hundreds of thousands of years ago. This article analyzes riddles in English and Russian . Comparative study is believed to reveal similar and distinctive qualities both in terms of buil...

The place-names being a linguistic phenomenon reflect different facts and trends related to the development of society. Here are some of them among the regional settlement names: 1) The peculiarities of Perm Krai occupancy reflect in the toponymic productive stems; 2) Toponymy reflects the changes in the system of the types (in a classification) of the geographical objects; 3) Toponymy reflects the changes in social population stratification; 4) Toponymy reflects the standardization trend in the Soviet society; 5)...

During the last decades, the family has undergone some profound mutations in its structure and functions: it has become increasingly sensitive to all changes occurring in society. Consequently, the term family has become more ambiguous and it tends to cover today some different realities than those characteristic to the previous generation. The structure and functionality of the family has a psychosocial character. Doesn't matters the personalities taken in themselves, but their relationship, the interaction betwe...

The article deals with the derivation view of metaphor. The main aim is to present the results of metaphor research connected with our interest in metaphor as a vehicle for cognition and communication. We try to show the view of metaphor, based on the assumption that it is analogous to communicative syntax. The process of metaphorisation is described in terms of mechanisms of text formation reflecting the results of cognition. Such view would differ from traditional ones by being dynamic, cognitive and anthropocen...

A detailed account in the article is given to the empirical findings concerning such insufficiently studied constitutional characteristics of a man as juvenility and gracility. Students sample heterogeneity on these constitutional characteristics is proved. The obtained results reflect differential sex-specific evolutionary development of a modern man, complex nonlinear interaction of juvenility and gracility as a somatotype manifestation.

This paper concentrates upon Roma ways of dealing with illness from the perspective of social anthropology. Social science defines illness primarily as an opposite to the state of health. As such, it is to great extend a subjective and relative phenomenon, determined most of all by the native culture. Ethno medicine, a sub-field of social anthropology, offers for these purposes so called Explanatory model of Arthur Kleinman [9]. The author does not offer practical solutions in her paper. Rather, she points to diff...

Ritual is a form of symbolic action, expressing the connection of a subject with a system of social relations and values. The main theme of any ritual was theme of creation of the world, which resulted in the establishment of people relations system. Ritual performs several vital functions, which are primarily a function of individual socialization, as well as integrating and reproducing function. The function of individual socialization is that the ritual prepares the individual to the social life, nurturing it n...