Religion of the Evenki: History and Modern Times

Abstract

The article attempts to reveal the transformation of the role of religion in preserving the traditional way of life of the Evenki ethnos from 1930s to 2000s in the northern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, as well as its reflection in the education system and in traditional culture (folklore, visual arts, decorative and applied art). The article notes that the analysis of domestic and foreign studies of the culture and religion of the Evenki confirms the validity of appealing to an interdisciplinary type of research. The subject of the research is the traditional and non-traditional religious movements embodied in the culture and life of the Evenki ethnos. Observation, analytical-descriptive method, including the analysis of individual elements of the development of the Evenk traditional culture, followed by generalization of the data, as well as comparative historical and dialectical methods are used to solve the research problems. Moreover, among the main research methods, philosophical and art history analysis of art works of the Evenki is actively used. The conclusion indicates general outputs and tendencies characterizing the current state of the embodiment of religious trends in culture, education and everyday life of the Evenki ethnos

Methodology for the Study of Complex Identity

“…Ethnosocial and ethnocultural processes record the degree of foundation of traditional cultural structures and changes in axiological characteristics and ethnicity parameters from local and general sides. On the general side, it is worth noting the processes of heterogenization as exacerbation of such phenomena as ethnogenesis, ethnic interest, ethnic culture, and ethnic roots (Avdeeva et al, 2019a;Koptseva, 2014;Koptseva et al, 2018;Koptseva and Reznikova, 2015;Libakova et al, 2016;Zamaraeva et al, 2019aZamaraeva et al, , 2019bZhgunova, Ivanova, 2011).…”

Historiographical Overview of the Research on the Transformation of the Russian People’s Values

“…A number of Russian researchers associate the transformation of social values with ethnic processes, including those that are peculiar for the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (Avdeeva et al, 2019a;Avdeeva et al, 2019b, Berezhnova andPimenova, 2015;Degtyarenko et al, 2019;Pchelkina, 2015). As a rule, these studies are conducted in the field, the authors applying quantitative and qualitative methods of social research (Koptseva et al, 2018;Libakova et al, 2016;Zamaraeva, 2014;Zamaraeva et al, 2019a;Zamaraeva et al, 2019b).…”