Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (5)
- Authors
- Sem, Tatiana Iu.
- Contact information
- Sem, Tatiana Iu.: Russian Museum of Ethnography St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3306-3481
- Keywords
- wedding ceremony; Tungus-Manchus; semantics; mental features
- Abstract
The article is devoted to one of the traditional life cycle rituals, the wedding ceremony of the Tungus-Manchus, based on the materials of the late 19th-early 20th century. Ritual practice is an up-to-date issue in today’s ethnography and cultural studies. The main semantic meaning of the Tungus-Manchu wedding ceremony is the union of a man and a woman of two exogamous genera. The article reveals the mental features of the main Tungus-Manchu wedding ceremony stages at three levels: action, folklore and material. The paper employs the hermeneutical method of analysing the material that studies the ritual, the material world and folklore associated with the wedding from the cultural text point of view. In general, the study relies upon the analysis of the symbolism and semantics of the Tungus-Manchu wedding ceremony. Based on the analysis of the main stages of the Tungus-Manchu wedding ceremony, the author concludes that the mental principle of the Tungus-Manchu wedding ceremony is the union of a man and a woman in marriage, perceived as the unity of the male and female elements associated with the cult of fertility, as well as their transition to a new status of married people, and the cosmic aspect of the unity of heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the material component of the ritual
- Pages
- 717–726
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997-1370-0814
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/143766
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