Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (6)

Authors

Skorinov, Sergey N.

Contact information

Skorinov, Sergey N:Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture 112 Krasnorechenskaia Str., Khabarovsk, 680045, Russia;

Keywords

myth; myth-making; mythosymbol; ethno-culture; self-identification; culture genesis

Abstract

The subject of the study is the characteristics, trends and regularities of the process of myth-making of the indigenous peoples of the Southern Far East of Russia – the Nanais, Negidals, Orochs, Udeghes, Uiltas, Ulchs and Nivkhs; mechanisms for formation, borrowing of myths and their socio-cultural functioning in the traditional and modern ethnic environment. The objective of the work is the study of myth-making as the basis of the traditional culture of the Tungusics and Nivkhs of the Southern Far East of Russia in the 19th-21st centuries, justification of the idea of aboriginal myth-making as a special way of ethno-cultural self-development and self-identification of ethnos and personality in a multicultural environment, form-making in the modern aboriginal process of the culture genesis

Pages

1356-1368

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/20335

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