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Through the analysis of the archival materials and own field data collected in the Iul’tinskii district in Chukotka the authors tracked the changes in a diet of Amguema Chukchi reindeer herders at the second part of the XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. During this period indigenous peoples of the Arctic dramatically changed their food consumption patterns. This paper aims to analyze the process of how a diet change in the North-Eastern Chukotka was accompanied by a transition to a new regime of food autonomy. ...

Before being subjected to ethnological, historical and psychosocial research, religion – in this case the issues regarding its essence, origin and development – represented a subject of reflection for generations of thinkers, with inherent oscillations and inconsistencies, which could be called the philosophy of religion. [9] In this paper, we discussed the connection between God and the human being, we talked about the human soul that can relate to God through religious feelings and worship. This relationship dif...

This study aims to describe the main musical and aesthetic concepts that define music as a special kind of language. The Ancient Greek doctrine of ethos claims that music is associated with feelings, since it imitates the human voice and expresses one’s state of mind or mood. In the doctrine of the affections music is compared to the art of rhetoric in its ability to affect emotions. So if rhetoric is an art of persuasion, then music is an art of suggestion. Romanticism in its turn declares music the language of f...

Yakutia is a region where the largest mining projects have been implemented for several decades, but traditional activities for the North (e.g. livestock, reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and gathering) maintain their steadiness, which spawns conflicts in land and nature use. The paper is devoted to the issue of access of Yakut traditional communities to land and natural resources in the context of ensuring income and consumption on the basis of traditional economic activities. The evolution of the settlement sy...

Human identity is constitutively ‘historical’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practices…) not only may we modify the meaning an...

Solidarity is a natural social requirement and represents the link that binds human beings together in mutually supportive relationships. Sometimes this link can break and people find themselves destitute, in difficulty, in loneliness, illness, rupture. To meet these needs, people are involved in charitable organizations, religious or not. Those people and organizations committed to the defense of human rights, for development and against poverty, for justice and peace, work for a culture of life. Christians certa...

The article reveals the importance of the religious factor in the making of culture; examines the mechanism of interaction of knowledge and will in the formulation of moral imperatives, and also proved the impossibility of social morality in society without religious Absolutes. Culture has hundreds of definitions, the content of which can be clarified as in the context of its correlation with various facets of socio-historical life, and with philosophical categories. Due to the multiplicity of manifestations and g...

Nietzsche's reduction of reason to “practice” of the irrational life, which schematizing chaos, is considered as important aspect of radical turn from classic to non classic European philosophy. Hermeneutic and comparative methods of a history-philosophical research are used. It is shown that M. Heidegger in lectures of 1936?40, which were devoted to F. Nietzsche, actually interprets his genealogy method as some kind of phenomenology reduction. The last allows to find, in the base of conceptual thinking, initial r...

The highest achievement of science is considered to be the knowledge of the laws of nature in objects and phenomena in their life cycle. A new vector of development of science-the way of synthesis, the search for strategies to expand the objective scientific rationality. Synergetics, as a powerful tool for coevolution of the various forms of knowledge, reveals the inner link between scientific rationality and Olonkho. From the point of view of physics, the argument for understanding the phenomenon of storytelling ...

Honor for parents and the institution of the family, which are the basis of rightly functioning world according to holy scriptures of world religions, are in postmodern world going through heavy and long-term crisis. Children and youth are raised in the social environment full of fear, distrust, egocentrism, consumerism and lax values, which are promoted by masmedia and popular personalities. Parents are no more generally considered to be decisive and certain authority for their descendants. Due to the increasing ...

The article addresses the issue of transformations in public consciousness followed by behavioral change in the context where the mature public values are required to be refocused, particularly, during the government's aggressive foreign policy aimed at capturing another country’s territory and resources. Foremost, the tools of military propaganda are discussed in terms of various linguistic means used, from euphemisms to a new language created, although there is a possibility of other means of manipulation, less ...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological point of...

The article deals with the practice of gift-giving and sharing in modern hunter-gatherer societies, namely among the Evenkis and some other people speaking Tungus languages. This study is based on the field researches conducted in 1988–1991, 1999–2002, 2005–2008 in different regions of Siberia. Being originally taiga hunters and reindeer herders, the Evenkis practiced a custom called nimat. Sharing of a large animals hunter has killed with his neighbours and strangers is at the core of this practice based on the p...

The article is devoted to the original author's conception of development of contemporary nonclassical (postnonclassical) science. According to this model, evolution of science is a unity of two processes: a) a process of discretion, formulation and solving of basic scientific problems and b) a process of reflexive-critical comprehension of results of scientific search and its main stages. Intra-scientific and general cultural reflexion reveals features of self-organization and self-correction (in the terms of Cha...

The article focuses on the study of communicative culture in the northern Tunguses’ (Evens and Evenks)geocultural space based on using of an integrated approach to the illumination of peripheral ethnolocal groups of the YakutianTunguses. The focus of the research’s attention is the analysis of traditional and modern behavioral strategies, ethnic identity, as well as symbolic means of communication as a spiritual component of culture using methods of interpretive anthropology. The use of this approach also enables ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the development of modern Russian society. Their fast development together with the convergence of computer systems with different types of communications resulted in the need to reevaluate the perception of these technologies in the spiritual sphere of a human being. This paper analyses the implementation of information and communication technologies into the spiritual sphere of the Russian society. Based on the analysis of statistical and...

The technology of keeping reindeer has its own characteristics that directly affect the productivity of reindeer husbandry. The main condition for further increase in the number of reindeer and increase their productivity is the rational use of pastures, that is, compliance with the correct methods of keeping and grazing reindeer. For the organization of the most complete and correct use of fodder grounds it is necessary knowledge not only of productivity of pastures, but also changes of vegetation under the influ...

Modern information technologies keep changing our world and bringing a new quality to it. A new type of culture has emerged – information culture, which reflects the specifics of social relations in a modern society. The paper raises the issue of information culture formation and its impact on the development of personality in the course of information socialization. The paper analyses possible perspectives and consequences of social interaction of people within information culture at the main stages of formation ...

From the point of view of modern science, we do not know all the properties of light. We still have a very poor idea of light. Apparently, our understanding about the environment, including light, are still very primitive and simple. We know almost nothing about the surrounding nature, the cosmos, about other civilizations. In a scientific way - about the microcosm, the macrocosm and megacosm. In a popular way - about the middle, upper and lower worlds. Human organs of the senses do not sense the invisible ritual ...

This paper aims to deepen the relationship between testimony and historical reconstruction putting particular attention around the process of historisation of memory. Testimony supposedly has preeminence among sources of historical knowledge in that it eliminates distance from the past, actualising it and somehow offering the possibility to ‘re-experience’ it through the narrative medium (oral or written). Beyond the specific, onto-logical and epistemological problematic gap between the lapsed past and its represe...

The questions of research and application of the creative heritage of L.Wittgenstein remain insufficiently studied. The report formulates the conditions for communication between the autonomous figures of the dream, including its subject. These conditions are necessary in the process of understanding and integrating the unconscious contents in the “my world”. The aim of this research is to create an analytic model for the functional structures of dream images, the logic of events and transformations. The hypothesi...

This article deals with history of development of cultural landscape in yakut village. Yakut village as a cultural space of modern Yakutia appears as a result of the policy of village resettlement in the middle of the twentieth century, and while preserving the traditional elements of the Yakut cultural landscape does not change to this day. Highlighting the features of the cultural landscape at the beginning of the XXI century, we notice the emergence of neopaganic religious buildings in the village – Archy Dyete...

The article discusses the main properties of spatial orientation in the traditional cultural landscape of Sakha people (Yakuts) in the Vilyui region. Particular attention is paid to the centrality, multiscale structure and anisotropy of cultural landscape at the local level. We have described characteristic features of the mental design of cultural landscape based on mythological representations and traditions of the local community. The real design of the ethnocultural landscape reflecting the natural and economi...

Domestication is a continuing process which takes place in the context of animals’ and humans’ cohabitation on same territory and should not be approached as a one-time and completed action. The control over animals’ movements in the context of the sustaining landscape is one of the main aspects of reindeer domestication. Reindeer herding is based on constant relocation of animals from place to place, implying daily short-term movements in order to bring them to a camp and to monitor predators’ movements. In case ...

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 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 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...

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 language spe...

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 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 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...

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

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 frontier l...

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...

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. We’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. Its’ pattern as symbol of traditional culture exists almost in al...

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 Christmas ...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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 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 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 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 ...

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, an...

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 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...

Today’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 s...