Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (Supplement)

Authors

Bulgakova, Tatiana D.

Contact information

Bulgakova, Tatiana D.:Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 nab. Moiki, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russia; E-mail:

Keywords

indigenous peoples of Siberia; ethnic identity; traditional culture; revival of traditional culture; revival of musical folklore; renessance of shamanism

Abstract

The contemporary discourse concerning necessity to revive the half-forgotten traditions of the indigenous peoples of Siberia that became topical on the tide of actualization of their ethnic identity paradoxically disagrees with the real practice of ignoring the traditions and replacing them by the cultural manifestations urged to strengthen the ethnic exclusiveness. The experiments of «revival of culture» (but actually of replacing it by the newly invented «traditions») took place in Siberia even in those cases, when the real old traditions still remained actual for the part of population. Nevertheless, the activity on reviving of traditions was guided not by those existing traditions, but by some simplified constructs that were engrained in the mass conscious as the images of the culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Because of the emphatic manifestations of the ethnic identity, the pseudo-traditional forms of the traditional culture displaced the authentic tradition contributing to their deformation and endangering

Pages

227-236

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16660

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