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The article presents the main results of the study of the Ethnography of the road as a separate and specific sphere of the ethnic tradition of the Tungus on the basis of an integrated approach in the coverage of the geoculture of the peripheral ethno-local groups of the Northern Tungus (Г…vens and Evenks). The focus of the research attention is the culture of the road as a set of customs, norms of behavior, material attributes and representations associated with direct movements - a fairly new, successfully develo...

It is known that cognitive anthropology tries to look at the picture of the world from the inside, through the eyes of the carrier of culture, to understand and describe the world of people of other cultures in their own terms. Most ethnologists-cognitivists are guided by the definition of culture as a system of values, scenarios of behavior, ideal models. It is assumed that each ethnic group has its own system of perception, thinking, behavior, emotions. Currently, the basic concepts of cognitive anthropology can...

Since ancient times, people attached special importance to hair and nails. Many traditions are connected with them. Around these particles of the human body there was a whole mythology. According to the view of the Tungus, hair is part of a person and therefore part of the soul. In extraordinary cases, for example, at the onset of any epidemic or after diseases, Tungus cut off from his head on strands of hair and give them to the shaman, for fear that any harmful spirit has not stolen their souls. The shaman keeps...