Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (11)

Authors

Krivonogov, Victor P.; Ermilova, Elizaveta S.

Contact information

Krivonogov, Victor P.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; ; Ermilova, Elizaveta S.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

Keywords

Ethnic processes; linguistic assimilation; mixed marriages; miscegenation; ethnic self-consciousness

Abstract

In the years 1997 and 2017 in Evenkia, comprehensive studies in the form of a mass survey were carried out. They revealed some significant changes in the household, various aspects of material and spiritual culture. The scale of reindeer breeding has dramatically dropped; at the present moment, around 1/10 of the Evenk families are engaged in it. Hunting and fishing are preserved better: almost one third of all men are engaged in them. The overwhelming majority of men continue hunting and fishing at the amateur level, just like the major part of women maintain their sewing and beadwork skills. The language assimilation process is very active; children hardly speak or understand their mother tongue, though the majority of the Evenks study it at school. The share of mixed families, mostly with Russians, has reached fifty per cent: the majority of children from these families get assimilated with the Evenk ethnicity. As a result of such marriages, the share of people of mixed descent among the Evenks is approaching two thirds, while among the children this share has reached 9/10. The Evenks are mixing with other ethnicities and acquire Russian language, but maintain a stable ethnic self-consciousness and preserve certain elements of their traditional culture in some aspects of material and spiritual culture

Pages

1845-1871

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/109132

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