Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (8)
- Authors
- Bereznitsky, Sergey V.
- Contact information
- Bereznitsky, Sergey V.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation;
- Keywords
- Amur-Sakhalin region; indigenous peoples; crafts materiality; transformation; evolution
- Abstract
Materiality (from Latin “materia substance“), understood as materiality, objectivity, corporeity, occupies an important place in the system of traditional and modern crafts of indigenous peoples of the Amur-Sakhalin region. Crafts is an economic and technological activity aimed at the sustenance of a social group or an ethnic group. The crafts activity, like any other component of ethnic culture, is constantly changing in an evolutionary and transformational sense. Inevitably losing some aspects, most often traditional ones, this component of life-support, acquires new, often foreign-cultural ones, simultaneously transforming and evolving. Evolutionary changes in the food model, clothing, types of housing and transport are associated with the perception and firm introduction of new materials and technologies for their production and use. Thus traditional materiality acquires the character of a changing one
- Pages
- 1471–1482
- EDN
- XWAOEQ
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150861
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