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CONTENTS / СОДЕРЖАНИЕ
Galina N. Varavina
The Yakut Evens’ Culture of Calendar Holidays: Traditions and
Modernity (Symbolism of Rituals)
– 629 –
Sardana I. Sharina
Dialects of Even Language: Research Status and Classification
– 641 –
Cyril N. Struchkov
On Functioning of Yakut Borrowings in the Language of the
Evenki in the Amur Region (Sociolinguistic Aspect)
– 647 –
Ekaterina A. Krivoshapkina
From the History of Publication of Educational Materials on
Even Language
– 653 –
Varvara G. Belolyubskaya
Cosmogonic Motifs in Folklore of the Evens
– 660 –
Antonina A. Vinokurova
Stanzaic Forms in Evenki Poetry (the Example of V. Lebedev`s
Works) as a Result of Educational Practice
– 664 –
Tamara E. Andreeva
On the œYukteB Pilot Project œEvenki Language at School:
Teaching Techniques, Information Technologies and Experience
ExchangeB
– 671 –
Elida S. Atlasova
Verb Classes in the Yukagir Language
– 676 –
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Galina A. Kopnina
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Dr. Suneel Kumar
Sargylana D. Vinokurova
Somatic Lexicon in Folklore and Toponyms of the Evenks
– 702 –
Grigory D. Belolyubskiy
On the Ethnonym &Even[
– 707 –
Antonina G. Koerkova
From the Historiography of the Kamchatka Evens
– 713 –
Ailana K. Kuzhuget
Folk Culture as a National Idea of the Tyva Republic
– 720 –
Nikolay V. Abaev
Geopolitical and Ethnocultural Aspects of Russian Border Area
Regional Security under the Circumstances of Socio-Cultural
Transit of Eurasian Civilization
– 724 –
Alina A. Nakhodkina
Lexical Gaps of Kinship in the Yakut Heroic Epic Olonkho:
Problems of Translation
– 735 –
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Zoya S. Zhirkova
Designing School Development of е!3 Indigenous Smallnumbered
Peoples of the North
– 742 –
Zoya E. Tarasova
Translation of the Sakha (Yakut) Culture-Specific Vocabulary
into English
– 748 –
Sergey N. Postnikov and Alena V. Andrienko
Educational Technology of B.I. Vershinin: the Content and
Features
– 754 –
Natalia P. Koptseva
The Results of Theoretical and Experimental Research of the
Modern Problems of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples
of the North, Siberia and the Far East in Siberian Federal
University
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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2013 6) 629-640
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УДК 947.094.2/8:636(571.56)
The Yakut Evens’ Culture of Calendar Holidays:
Traditions and Modernity
(Symbolism of Rituals)
Galina N. Varavina*
Institute of Humanitarian Researches and Problems
of Indigenous Peoples of the North SA RAS
1 Petrovsky Str., Yakutsk, Respublika Sakha (Yakutia), 677007 Russia
Received 20.12.2012, received in revised form 27.02.2013, accepted 26.04.2013
The article is devoted to the celebration of the ritual of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia
and the Far East. The author examines in detail the ritual symbolism of the Even ethno-cultural groups
residing in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In the celebrations and ceremonies Evens manifest the
ancient cultures of the people associated with the worship of Mother Nature, Fire, sacred animals.
Keywords: Evens, holidays, rituals, calendar, indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far
East.
The work was fulfi lled within the framework of the research fi nanced by the Krasnoyarsk Regional
Foundation of Research and Technology Development Support and in accordance with the course
schedule of Siberian Federal University as assigned by the Ministry of Education and Science of the
Russian Federation.
Ritual
holiday
activity
the seasons:
of
indigenous
peoples of the North (the Evens in particular)
was performed in the most crucial periods of
alternations of
in the periods of
nature’s birth, bloom, fading away and rebirth.
Symbolic features of these turning points were
refl ected in the meaning of calendar rituals and
holidays. The idea of nature’s beginning and end,
fading away and rebirth, its continuity is common
and uniting for rituals and holidays of a full-year
cycle.
The Evens’ traditional calendar holidays, as
well as the ones of the other peoples of the North,
were connected with transitional cycles between
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warm and cold periods, the end of one cycle and
the beginning of another, “aging” and “renewal”.
“Refl ection of time in nature, consecutive change
of seasons and celestial bodies’ movements …
were perceived as signs of a life process analogous
to a human’s one and connected with it” (L’vova,
Oktiabr’skaia, Sagalaev, Usmanova 1988, p. 45).
Each of these sources is counterbalanced by
a period of time with seemingly opposite signs.
These are, fi rst of all, morning – evening and
spring – autumn. The main characteristic feature
of morning and spring as well as of evening
and autumn is a change of quality. Spring and
morning, autumn and evening are transitional
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