Religion of the Selkups and the Kets in the Historical and Cultural Genesis

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the genesis of religious ideas of the Ket and Selkup ethnocultural groups in a historical and cultural context. On the basis of the ethnographic and linguistic material, the article describes the current state of religion and culture of the Kets and Selkups, provides an analytical review of classical and modern studies reflecting the dynamics of the development of religious ideology in the territories inhabited by these ethnic groups. Despite the official Christianization, both the Kets and the Selkups have retained their traditional cosmological and ideological views for many years. Their religious ideology is characterized by coexistence of beliefs and rites of different origins and specificities that reflect natural, everyday, economic and social conditions of ethnic communities. The key manifestations of religious ideology include the idea of the three-part structure of the universe, animistic and ancient totemic beliefs, developed trade ideology, shamanism, burial rites and folklore

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).…”

Compensatory Role of Symbolic Mediators in Constructing Ethnocultural Identity

“…This repetition is revealed to us in the form of a ritual. Many researchers show their interest in considering the specific features of the religion of the indigenous peoples of the North (Tokarev, 1976;Pospelova, 2000), in particular, the reconstruction of an integral idea of religious consciousness in the process of cultural transformations (Avdeeva et al, 2019a(Avdeeva et al, , 2019bZamaraeva et al, 2019).…”

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).…”