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Concept “Culture” in the language consciousness of Yakut language speakers is analyzed with the aim to reveal the core of the concept. There are 15 stimulus words, which were revealed as a result of the analysis of 25 Russian and 25 English definitions of the word “culture”. The associative experiment is the basic method to get the world image of language speakers, the “Gestalt method” by Y.N. Karaulov is the basic to reveal the core and periphery conceptual signs of the concept. Associations of Yakut ...

Frequent economical, political and cultural exchanges between German and Scandinavian people during the Middle Ages led to the large scale changes that affected many parts of people’s lives and resulted in the appearance of German-Scandinavian frontier culture with its specific features. This article, using the example of Middle German heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied” and the corpus of adjoining texts that comprise “the legend of Nibelungs ” aims at describing how literature transgresses boundaries, how f...

The work compares chthonic images in three cultural epic and folklore traditions - Yakut, Russian, and English. Despite some specific instances of asymmetrical chthonic features, there are, however, general and universal ones. Chthonic creatures, which initially resembled the wild and natural strength of the earth, as well as the underworld, and other similar notions, serve as mediators between the world of the dead and the world of the living. These mediators have the ability to exist in two worlds simultaneously...

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.

Within a framework of the research project В‘Archaeological cultures and ethnic communities of North-Eastern Siberia: geoculture, co-spatiality and identity (interdisciplinary discourse)В’ (2017-2020) in the block III В‘Profane and sacred space of the Northern Turks and the Tungus: daily routine, communication and modern symbolic representation of the territorial identityВ’ we began the study of the communicative culture of the Tungus people in the context of their daily routine. The research strategy involves the...

In this paper, we consider the cult of horse in religious beliefs of the Yakut people, its role in the myth and epic traditions and its place in the ritual culture. WeВ’ve attempted to make a cultural analysis of an image Horse and horse cult in traditional ritual culture of Yakut people from symbolic, semiotic and sacral point of view, i.e. horse is worshipping and honorable animal, that has sacral nature. In former times, every family keep a horse. ItsВ’ pattern as symbol of traditional culture exists almost in ...

Clear and correct understanding of phenomena would be impossible without taking into consideration existing context of its appearance existence and development. It is completely true when talking about processes on the Arabian Peninsula in the end of the 6th- early 7th centuries AD and the rise of Islam. As a matter of fact the available sources only shed some light on the problems but the final solution is possible after series of further investigations in the future which should have a multidisciplinary characte...

Based on field research over 2010-2016 with the use of J. Phinney's ethnic identity measurement methods, we have analyzed the modern ethnic identification and self-identification processes among the Evenks, Selkups, Kets, and Chulyms –indigenous peoples living on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Eastern Siberia) with a population of less than 50,000 persons. The conducted research allows us to identify the following processes: total loss of the knowledge of the native languages among the Chulyms, Selkups, ...

The indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia are being affected by a host of global changes. Their traditional culture is particularly vulnerable to global expansion, urbanization, and the influence of modern popular culture. These peoples' modern existence depends on political management undertaken by the federal and regional governments in the territories where the indigenous peoples are boxed in. In 2010-2016, field research was conducted in the regions of Eastern Siberia inhabited by the aboriginal peoples, inclu...

TodayВ’s society is confronted with and is debating a tough reality about the limited existence of every human being, about death. When confronted with the mystery of death, people can display different attitudes: indifference and refusal of the idea of end of life, fierce revolt, euthanasia, helpless resignation, conscious acceptance and integration of this reality in the natural course of life. The profile of a person which embraces euthanasia as a right is that of a man or woman with intense and delicate inner ...

The purpose of this article is to characterize the final stage of the evolution of artistic forms of folk art of the twentieth century Yakutia related to the processes of transformation of contemporary culture in the 1990-ies. The process of autonomization of culture was associated with the sovereignty of the Republic of Sakha (1990) and is expressed in the tendencies of ethnocentrism. However, market relations and the process of revival of traditional culture has intensified the phenomenon of ethnic consolidation...

The paper is dedicated to the topic of folk prose at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, in particular the issue of language and genre. Scientific interest in the folk literature launched on European soil since the mid-18th century. With a little delay the collection and study of folk culture gradually developed in our country, and the folk literature was at the forefront. Until then, the folk culture and art had remained beyond the official national culture. Within the national legitimacy and equality of Slova...

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 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 considers language variety or multilingualism of the modern globalized world space in the terms of local and global components of the inter cultural communication as vectors aiming to opposite directions from the point of view of different and often clashing scientific and historical approaches. The use of historical and comparative analysis allows the author to understand that most scholars claim that such turbulence occurs because the peoples as the carriers of different national cultures and languag...

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 th...

The secularization of society, often associated with the phenomenon of modernization of society, represents a complex process characterized by a restructuring of the moral-ethical values and religious practices. One of the issues of contemporary secularization of society involves passing the property belonging to the churches or monasteries into State ownership. While in Western society this process is the consequence of social developments, in the countries of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe the secularizati...

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...

Over the period of 2010-2017, field research has been conducted in the territories of the Siberian Arctic in Eastern Siberia. The field research was conducted in different northern settlements, including the rural settlement of Khatanga inhabited by the Dolgans. The Dolgans are a small-numbered, indigenous people of the North and Siberia. The settlement of Khatanga is situated in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, within Russian Arctic territory. During the study, the post-S...

The fodder base is the basis for the development of reindeer husbandry and, consequently, the existence of indigenous peoples of the North. Currently lichen pasture areas continue to decline. Reduction of pasture areas can lead to a decline in production in the traditional sector due to the narrowing of its activities. The development of reindeer husbandry is primarily determined by the state of pastures and their deer carrying capacity. For 01.01.2001 out of the total territory of reindeer breeding districts of t...

The article deals with the issues of revitalization of Olonkho in the dawn of the 21st century. The authors emphasize that the recognition of UNESCO's Olonkho as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind was part of the process in the revival and popularization of Olonkho in contemporary cultural space. The authors believe that organizing folklore festivals dedicated to the Yakut epic of Olonkho, as well as the Yhyakh New Year holidays in the uluses, contributes to the revitalization of the epic...

Ceremonies and algys devoted to the goddess Aiyysyt are considered in the article. The Yakut goddess-mother Aiyysyt in the functions and appointments corresponds to goddesses: Turkic Umay - Umay-ene (kumadin.), Ymay-ene (kachinsk.), Mau-ene (teleut.) and Old Indian Wuma, and also Old Iranian Arta (avestiysky - Asha). In Yakut mythology Akhtar Aiyysyt, either Nalygyr Aiyysyt, or Nelbey Aiyysyt is the goddess caring for reproduction of people. She together with Ieyekhsit asks Yuryung Aar Toyon to a soul (iye-kut) of...

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...

Winter Romanian traditions have an outstanding complexity and include a variety of both melodic and choreographic species. Christmas ritually mask has a double significance: it unifies the earthly world with the one beyond – a Utopian agglutination between the living and the “departed”, and a second meaning which cares for the agrarian field. Tradition says that for 12 days the Romanian games, that include masks, have the special purpose to reorganize and renew the entire world. During Christmas Eve and Chri...

Secularization is a profound transformation of the society, in the sense of restructuring the relations between society and religion. Contemporary society are marked by a decrease of the role of religious institutions in the sphere of public life, by an accentuation of the general processes of individualization and rationalization as well as by the replacement of the traditional religious with innovative religious convictions and practices. The mutations in the field of values, norms, beliefs and practices of cont...

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 be...

We analyzed the results of field studies in the Tyukhtet District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The subject of the study is the childhood culture of the indigenous, scarce peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A group of researchers from Siberian Federal University had studied the Chulym ethnocultural group ("chulymtsy"). The target of the study was Chulym children. The main research methods were field studies and focus groups, which involved observation and expert interviews. The general culture of childhood, the...

The article reports on results of field research conducted in the Siberian Arctic between 2010 and 2015. Field research was conducted at the place of compact residence of indigenous people: Evenks, Dolgans, Nganasans, Chulyms, Nenets people, and Selkup people. In addition to field research, methods of expert interview were applied, with representatives of the indigenous people of the Siberian Arctic, including scholars, community leaders, members of the business community, and local government officials acting as ...

The article explores the figurative possibilities of the Russian hydronym Volga and its Tatar equivalent Idel as aesthetically significant elements of the poetic works language. The urgency of the work is due to the lack of publications in which these hydronyms would be analyzed from the point of view of realizing their figurative potential in the artistic text, and also the need to consider this issue for a more complete description of onomastic units and further development of the theory of artistic speech. The ...

The article substantiates the hypothesis of existence of Siberian sub-ethnic identity on the basis of analysis of Siberian social practices, results of focus-groups, and literary texts. The Siberian sub-ethnic identity is based on ethnic, cultural, religious, political, regional, and territorial identities. The processes of globalization cause a reaction and give rise to new types of ethnic and cultural identities, associated with the territories. Siberian region is of great importance for the economic and politic...

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 images of permafrost and cold can be depicted through a combination of myths and ethno-cultural representations designed for self-determination and self-presentation of Arctic territories. Related to a multiplicity of images and conceptions in the contemporary culture of the peoples of the North, the symbol of the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) stands as a semantic nucleus in the Arctic zone. The fossilized animal of the Pleistocene period, through the discovery of remains in the permafrost, was introduced by...

The vision about the family and the relations it relies on has recently experienced radical changes, some positive, others negative, the accent seeming to pass from the sense of the family destination to the evaluation of the personal relation of those who support or deny it. The destination or the goal of the family used to be lived in direct relation with its traditional image, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, namely father and mother, children, grand-children and great-grandchildren. Yet, this image h...

The problem of ethnic history and ethnogeny of Goguryeo people has been of great interest to Russian archaeologists and ethnographers because we have to assume this ethnographic group of ancient Korean people had closer ties with Tungus-Manchurian people, particularly with the DongyiXianbei, Sushen-Yilou, Ugu-Udegeis, possibly Uvas-Uvan, Jurchen people and Manchurians themselves.In 1851 for the first time N.Y. Bichurin suggested that ancient Korean people, Goguryeopeople in particular, were connected to Tungus-Man...

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 Ya...