Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (7)

Authors

Nikiforova, Sargylana V.

Contact information

Nikiforova, Sargylana V.: North- Eastern Federal University Yakutsk, Russian Federation;

Keywords

corpus of basic symbols; everyday life; ethnomethodology; everyday consciousness; ethnicity; stereotypes; self-name; historical memory; values; social competence

Abstract

The problem of the complexity of ethnic self-identification of a modern person is considered. The analysis of basic symbols, functioning both in the ritual and in everyday life, is proposed. We determine the specificity of structuring and hierarchization of the semantic field of culture, where symbols appear as signs of identification of an ethnic group and genetic memory of culture. It is noted that in traditional everyday life, ordinary consciousness uses these symbols as something “taken for granted”, not subject to reflection, automatically building a household context: the “self-concept” of the ethnos, the self-name, everyday knowledge, the jointly known idea of the native land – alaas. Based on the analogies between ordinary and mythological consciousness, the author, using the example of self-designation and spatial representations in the Sakha (Yakut) culture, examines the structure and mechanism of functioning of key symbols. The author concludes, that symbols serve as the basis for ethnic identification, actualize and strengthen the spiritual experience of predecessors in the consciousness of the cultural bearer, thereby rooting a person and providing the foundations of his existence

Pages

1036–1042

EDN

WVQSPK

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150817

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