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  • Ethnic myth-making in cyberspace as a factor of representation of Chuvash ethnicity

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 6 No 3
    Author:
    Aleksey S. Rogovoy
    Work direction:
    Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
    Abstract:
    The article is devoted to the study of Chuvash ethnic myth-making in cyberspace. The aim of the work is to determine its role as one of the factors of ethnicity representation. The study is based on the analysis of the relevant content presented on popular web platforms and social networks YouTube, Rutube, Zen, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki. The study identifies a certain section of content offered by search algorithms as the most viewed and included in thematic collections and playlists. The author examines the myth-making components of the Internet space, characterizes formats and plots, identifies their authors, and studies the audience's reaction to the content. Data analysis showed that ethnic myth-making has a positive effect on the representation of the Chuvash culture. Despite some inaccuracies in the information, such material generally evokes positive emotions in users. Information in video and text format is published on popular Russian platforms, making ethno-myth-creating content accessible to a wide audience. The myths created by the authors reflect their desire to show the antiquity and significance of the Chuvash people, which helps the Chuvash people to understand their identity, place and role in the world. Ethno-myth-creating content on the Internet increases interest in the Chuvash culture, promoting its popularization and representation.
    Keywords:
    Chuvash, cyberspace, ethnic myth-making, ethnicity, representation
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  • Myths about kyrgyz in military publishing (based on Ilya Ehrenburg’s essay «Kirghiz»)

    Proceeding
    University as a factor of Modernization of Russia: History and Prospects (to the 55th anniversary of the I.N. Ulyanov ChSU)
    Authors:
    Tolgonai N. Nurmukhammatova, Venera K. Sabirova
    Work direction:
    Война как фактор формирования национальной идентичности
    Abstract:
    The authors of the article reflect on the role of myths, which tells about representatives of the Kyrgyz ethnic group in the journalistic work of the Russian writer of Jewish origin Ilya Ehrenburg.
    Keywords:
    creativity, myth, literary work, heroes
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  • Mythological reminiscences in the poetry of V.Ya. Bryusova

    Proceeding
    Pedagogy, Psychology, Society
    Author:
    Kristina N. Kirichenko
    Work direction:
    Филология в системе образования
    Abstract:
    The article discusses approaches to defining the concept of “reminiscence”, analyzes mythological reminiscences in the lyrics of V.Ya. Bryusov: the dominant mythological motifs and images in his poetic work have been studied, Bryusov’s poems have been compared with the lyrics of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho, the specifics of the use of mythological reminiscences have been determined. The tendencies of Bryusov's lyrics are also compared with the peculiarities of O.E.'s creativity. Mandelstam.
    Keywords:
    myth, V.Ya. Bryusov, reminiscence, Sappho, O.E. Mandelstam
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  • Foreign language textbook as semiotic phenomenon

    Review Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 5 No 4
    Authors:
    Elena E. Chikina, Valeria A. Averina
    Work direction:
    Ethno-Cultural Problems of Education
    Abstract:
    The aim of this paper is the semiotic analysis of a foreign language textbook as a semiotic phenomenon reflecting the cognitive attitudes of its authors and aimed at forming not only external but also deep layers of the learner's linguistic personality, responsible for motivation, intents and attitudes. The material to be analysed is a popular line of EFL textbooks “English file” by British authors Ch. Latham-Koenig and C. Oxenden. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time a foreign language textbook is considered not as an educational and methodological text, but as an alternative reality, a dynamic complex sign, similar to the discursive space of a fiction book. The study is conducted by applying the method of contextual analysis, the method of cognitive-pragmatic analysis, and the interpretive method to the polycoded texts of EF-textbooks. The authors conclude that the semiotic complex of EF-textbooks exhibits the characteristics of an educational novel of fiction, where the learner assumes the function of a fairy-tale hero, acting in the space of English-language cultural mythologems, reference-metric elements, topoi and narratives. As a result of active realisation of the happy end narrative, supported by the system of topoi and precedent names characteristic of the English-language conceptosphere, the textbook uses the suggestive potential of the so-called soft power to form changes at the motivational-pragmatic level of the linguistic personality.
    Keywords:
    semiotics, semiology, pedagogical discourse, foreign language textbook, cultural mythologemes, narrative, precedent phenomenon
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  • Seasons in the Russian-language writing of the Udmurt poet V. Ar-Sergi

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 5 No 2
    Author:
    Evgeniia V. Panteleeva
    Work direction:
    World languages and literature
    Abstract:
    The article is devoted to the study of the semantics of the seasons in the Russian-language poetry of the Udmurt poet and prose writer V. Ar-Sergi. The relevance of this work is caused by the fact that today artistic texts of national authors require a holistic conceptual analysis, since they are strongly influenced by Russian literature, which in turn affects their ethnocultural identity. The issue of preserving, strengthening and developing national language in the multilingual space of the Russian Federation is acute. The author undertook an analytical review of the problem on the material of the Ar-Sergi Russian-language poetry. During the study, traditional methods of literary research (quantitative, structural-semiotic, comparison and collation, method of holistic text analysis) were used. Both traditionally mythological and individual authorial realia associated with the perception of calendar natural changes are reflected in the poetic texts of Ar-Sergi. The degree of their semantic connectedness with traditional canons of Udmurt culture is determined. Comprehension of the natural passage of time is closely intertwined with the emotional and psychological plan of the works. The natural landscape axiologically becomes a theme for constant artistic reflection in the poetry of Ar-Sergi. The lexical units from the lexico-semantic group “seasons” have not only a certain temporal semantic load but also denote the internal emotional state of the lyric subject in the poetic texts of the Udmurt poet. The attention of the author is turned not only on his own worldview but also folk-mythological contexts of the whole ethnic group.
    Keywords:
    Udmurt Russian-language poetry, Udmurt folklore, mythopoetic of the seasons
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  • Chuvash mystical stories: content component

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 5 No 2
    Author:
    Elena V. Fedotova
    Work direction:
    World languages and literature
    Abstract:
    The work is devoted to the analysis of texts of Chuvash epics recorded from the end of the XIX to the beginning of the XXI centuries. in the Chuvash villages of the Volga-Ural region. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the content of the texts of Chuvash bylichek, to introduce them into scientific circulation. The study presents the classification of bulls compiled by the author. The work is based on archival and own field materials. The texts are analyzed in a descriptive aspect. At the same time, the author turns to ethnographic and linguistic approaches in the work. A distinctive feature of the Chuvash bylichka is its content: a description of the landscape, furnishings, traditional costume, jewelry, local cultural features. In addition, bylichkas are characterized by enumeration of endemic toponyms, details, the use of certain sets of plots, the mention of household items, tools, harness items, and the performance of various kinds of deeds. The most amazing are the narratives about the transformations of people with supernatural abilities into various household items (cloth, chair, pillow) or into animals (cat, dog, calf, lamb) and back into a person, the transformation of the mortgaged dead into horses, harness items. The ending of the epics often contains the syncretism of two religions: pre-Christian and Christian.
    Keywords:
    classification, Chuvash folklore, bylichka, traditional existence, mythological character, content component
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  • Literary portraits of N. Gumilev and A. Blok as part of the myth about a Russian poet in G. Ivanov’s memoirs

    Review Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 5 No 1
    Author:
    Vera V. Koroleva
    Work direction:
    World languages and literature
    Abstract:
    The article deals with the problem of mythologized perception of the names of the poets of the Silver Age N. Gumilev and A. Blok in the works of G. Ivanov «Chinese Shadows» and «Petersburg Winters». The purpose of this study is to determine, based on a comparative analysis of the literary portraits of N. Gumilev and A. Blok, which are created using the contrast technique, the specifics of the myth about the Russian Poet in the memoir prose of G. Ivanov. The two poets are contrasted on the basis of a number of criteria: appearance, character, attitude to creativity, their political position, etc. In conclusion, the article concludes that N. Gumilev and A. Blok, acting as antipodes in the eyes of contemporaries, nevertheless, have similar qualities inherent in the Russian poet: love for the Motherland, dreaminess, nobility, chivalry, romantic nature, inner dualism, hatred of falsehood, lies and willingness to sacrifice for the sake of creativity. G. Ivanov, creating a literary portrait of poets, combines real features in their images with an artistic perception of their personality, thereby making their biography part of the myth of the Russian poet – prophet, for whom life, Russia and creativity are one.
    Keywords:
    myth-making, Ivanov, the myth of the poet, contrast technique, Blok, Gumilev
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  • The Ontological Dimension of Everyday Life in the Mythopoetic Picture of the World

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 3 No 2
    Author:
    Natalia P. Ryabchun
    Work direction:
    Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
    Abstract:
    The article deals with the concept of a home in traditional culture. It is argued that in the mythopoetic tradition, universal principles of creating a house were formed. This deserves attention today, because the main thesis in the concept of a home was the idea of the ontological dimension of everyday life, of the close connection of the spiritual and the material, of the connection of philosophical ideas and everyday actions. In traditional culture, everyday life was associated with the origins of being, was the sphere of application of creative forces. The object of research is the practice of building peasant houses in the medieval period, as well as in the XVIII-XIX centuries, their architecture and interior, their relationship with the surrounding landscape. The author uses general historical, semiotic and hermeneutical methods of research. The article systematizes the architectural principles of building a traditional home, which made the peasant house a prototype of the cosmos, a model of the universe. The author analyzes such structural elements of the mythological picture of the world as the tree of life, the world axis, the cross, the sacrifice, and their application in architecture. The author considers the ideas about the heterogeneity of space in the mythological culture and how they were used in the construction of the house; the function of doors, windows, gates in the symbolic structure of the house is investigated. The conclusion is made about the trinity of information, energy and matter in traditional culture.
    Keywords:
    folklore, mythopoetic picture of the world, concept of a home, ontology, traditional dwelling, semantics of ritual, archaic consciousness, world tree, cosmos, sacrifice
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  • Literary Arrangement of Folklore Plots into the Language of Fiction: The Poem by G. Tukay «SU Anasy» through the Prism of the Folklore and Mythological Basis of the Work

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 3 No 2
    Author:
    Saviia G. Samitova
    Work direction:
    Folklore Studies
    Abstract:
    The article is the first attempt to determine the peculiarities of the perception of folklore and mythological plots, with the image of Su Anasy in the center, by Tatar fiction. The relevance and significance of the present research is determined by the lacunarity of this scientific topic in the modern Turkology research. The investigation reflected in this article is based on the use of comparative, systemic, functional and genetic methods, as well as the reconstruction method. The use of these methods is determined by the desire to present a comprehensive analysis of the multifactorial influence of the folklore and mythological specifics of the Su Anasy image on its plot, ideological, ethical and aesthetic adaptation to the field of fiction, that is the aim of the present work. In the course of the analysis, it was established that the central image of the poem of Tatar classic G. Tukay is a kind of quintessence of the traditional worldview of the Tatar ethnos, accumulating the most archaic, basic epistemological and axiological constants. The revealed fact of the dialogue between folklore and imaginative literature, forms an ethnically marked consonance between the two varieties of verbal creativity, and we can claim that this very statement explains the fact that several generations of literary scholars assess the Gabdulla Tukay’s «Su Anasy» as a truly folk work.
    Keywords:
    interpretation, mythology, Tatar folklore, Su Anasy, literary arrangement, amplification
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  • The Image of Witch in the Documents of the Salem Witch-Trial

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture Volume 3 No 1
    Author:
    Leionis A. Van Khaaske
    Work direction:
    Ethnography, Anthropology and Folkloristics
    Abstract:
    The article attempts to reconstruct the image of a witch based on the interrogation records of those accused of witchcraft during the Salem trial (Massachusetts, North America, 1692) and related materials. The subject of research is the phenomenon of prosecution on those accused of witchcraft. The source base are the records of the Salem process, transcribed and published in 1977, as well as a number of documentary testimonies of witnesses, speaking from a puritanical viewpoint. The article examines the features of the mythological worldview of traditional society, dictated by the belief in supernatural influence (witchcraft). After analyzing the interrogation records of the first accused during this trial and considering a number of their biographical data, the author comes to the conclusion that the situation demonstrated by this trial is paradoxical: in fact, arbitrary people are subjected to persecution, and the reconstruction of the image of a witch that could underlie such accusations, does not seem possible. The author's conclusions are essential for the study of both the phenomenon of witch-trials and the mentality of traditional society. This article was conducted from an imagological perspective relevant to modern social studies.
    Keywords:
    witch-trial, the image of a witch, fear of the supernatural, the Other, puritan mentality, mythological worldview, spectral evidence, colonial America
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  • Modern Moldovan Theatre: A Return to the Origins

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture No 4 (5)
    Author:
    Irina E. Katereva
    Work direction:
    History and Theory of Art Questions
    Abstract:
    The article examines one of the trends in the development of modern Moldavian theatre. Being complex and multifaceted phenomenon, it is generally influenced by the direction of society's development. At the present stage its development is based on the influence of two simultaneously existing and opposing directions. One is directed outwards, expanding the range of his contacts with theaters of other countries and reflecting the principle of transculturalism. Since the 90s of the previous century, the art of actors in the Moldovan theater, the specificity of their expressiveness appeals to the experience of world's theatrical art in all its integrity, where archaic and modernity, East and West, complementing each other, serve mutual development. Another vector of development, fundamental, is directed inward. It is connected with the deep processes that affected the dramatic art of Moldova. The theatre rushed to its inner support, to the origins, from the depths of which the national theatrical tradition grows and where myth, ritual, archetype reign inseparably. At the junction of archaic and modernity, the theatre is looking for an opportunity to reveal the spiritual space of the people, the world of ancestral archetypes, the authentic unconscious. Through the art of acting to express the enduring features of the soul, the «ethnic cosmos». Research methods: theoretical analysis, generalization of scientific researches, Internet materials, systematic analysis of theatrical practice. Author concludes that modern Moldovan theatre develops under the influence of two interrelated vectors of development, existing simultaneously and oppositely directed.
    Keywords:
    myth, archetype, ritual, moldovan theatre, remithologization, Dionysian origin
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  • Ethno-Cultural Code of Altai

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture No 2 (3)
    Author:
    Irina A. Zhernosenko
    Work direction:
    Problems of Ethnic Cultures Preservation
    Abstract:
    The article reveals the essence of the ethno-cultural code of the indigenous people of Altai, based on a complex of stable worldview concepts: the mythologema of the crossroads, the filosofeme “Jol” (“Path”), the sacral center concepts, etc., which make up the framework of the spiritual system of the nomadic peoples of Eurasia – Tengrianism. The study exposes key markers of the mentality of the indigenous inhabitants of Altai, manifested both in everyday life and in ritual practices; their actualization in the current sociocultural situation is substantiated and their potential for developing a strategy for the sociocultural development of the region, based on the integration of the biosphere and noosphere potential of the territory with its cultural code is revealed. It is emphasized that the mentality of the Altai people is free from religious and political dogmas; it is sensitive to changes that occur in the natural and social environment; it is focused on events occurring today. Methods. The methods of structural and functional and semiotic analysis were applied in the study. It is concluded that the sacral centers on the territory of Altai are of great significance in modern conditions, so the new model of socio-economic development of the region – the noosphere model – is based on the synthesis of science, ecology, veneration of the holy places of their people, ethno-cultural diversity and natural laws of social structure as the basis for the stability of life.
    Keywords:
    Altai, nomadic culture, sacral center, Tengrianism, the mythologema of the crossroads, the filosofeme “Jol” (“Path”), noospheric model of society development
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  • Origins and Traditions of Using Myth Poetics in Uzbek Literature

    Research Article
    Ethnic Culture No 1 (1)
    Author:
    Dilfuza R. Pardaeva
    Work direction:
    Methodological Questions
    Abstract:
    The myth contributed to the birth of literature and was the source and beginning of literature. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of mythology in the development of various types of arts, in the very development of artistic and figurative thinking, and, of course, primarily in the development of fiction. The study of the poetics of myth is associated with the revival of the mythologizing tradition in Uzbek literature.
    Keywords:
    literature, prose, myth, mythology, poetics of myth, myth-making, tradition
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