FAMILY-MARRIAGE RELATIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SIBERIA AS AN ETHNOCULTURAL PHENOMENON OF A TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
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Information about authors: Ulturgasheva Nadezhda Dorzhuevna, Dr of Culturology, Professor, Department Chair of Theory and History of Folk Artistic Culture, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: n.d.ult@mail.ru Alekseeva Anargul Grigoryevna, Postgraduate, St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). E-mail: anara42@mail.ru
Annotation: Modern civilization is characterized by high digital and information technologies, but at the same time seriously lagging in the spiritual and moral development of humanity, which allows us to speak about its crisis. It manifests itself not only in the general striving for pragmatism and change of value orientations but most importantly in the destruction of family being and consequently of human being as a whole. A human being in many ways is determined by worldviews since the 1970s. The last century has undergone drastic changes. They touched many spheres but are especially acute in the sphere of family-marriage relations. Deep transformation of the institutions of traditional culture, the desire for egalitarianism in relation to the sexes have the greatest impact on the family and family-marriage relations. Traditional family values are outdated and new ones are in the process of becoming. The modern family is, as it were, at the breaking point of value systems because of which its position in society and functions can be designated as crisis. Global trends in the evolution of the family as a small social group appear as successive types of families in the following form: the patriarchal family is a modern family with children in the center, a post-modern family (conjugal union). The usual signs of a family institution, such as compulsory marriage, the confirmation of the birthright in marriage, the settled family way of life that has been established and approved by social norms, etc. lose their significance. In the conditions of destruction of firm reference points, the family relations become extremely inconsistent. Researchers note the weakening of the family’s life-supporting ties, which were determined by the rigid formula “marriage-parenthood-kinship.” On the one hand, the family ceased to be a fortress, private sphere, its space becomes open to publicity, on the other, a new, “conjugal” model of the family increasingly depends on the influence of society, despite its openness. Within the family, the importance of interpersonal relationships increases, consumer relations between spouses and their children dominate. The rejection of patriarchy, freedom of emotional self-expression are signs of a new family relationship of the 21st century.
Keywords: indigenous people of Siberia, wedding ceremony, tradition, neotraditionalism, material culture, spiritual culture, traditional society.
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Information about authors: Ulturgasheva Nadezhda Dorzhuevna, Dr of Culturology, Professor, Department Chair of Theory and History of Folk Artistic Culture, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: n.d.ult@mail.ru Alekseeva Anargul Grigoryevna, Postgraduate, St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). E-mail: anara42@mail.ru
Annotation: Modern civilization is characterized by high digital and information technologies, but at the same time seriously lagging in the spiritual and moral development of humanity, which allows us to speak about its crisis. It manifests itself not only in the general striving for pragmatism and change of value orientations but most importantly in the destruction of family being and consequently of human being as a whole. A human being in many ways is determined by worldviews since the 1970s. The last century has undergone drastic changes. They touched many spheres but are especially acute in the sphere of family-marriage relations. Deep transformation of the institutions of traditional culture, the desire for egalitarianism in relation to the sexes have the greatest impact on the family and family-marriage relations. Traditional family values are outdated and new ones are in the process of becoming. The modern family is, as it were, at the breaking point of value systems because of which its position in society and functions can be designated as crisis. Global trends in the evolution of the family as a small social group appear as successive types of families in the following form: the patriarchal family is a modern family with children in the center, a post-modern family (conjugal union). The usual signs of a family institution, such as compulsory marriage, the confirmation of the birthright in marriage, the settled family way of life that has been established and approved by social norms, etc. lose their significance. In the conditions of destruction of firm reference points, the family relations become extremely inconsistent. Researchers note the weakening of the family’s life-supporting ties, which were determined by the rigid formula “marriage-parenthood-kinship.” On the one hand, the family ceased to be a fortress, private sphere, its space becomes open to publicity, on the other, a new, “conjugal” model of the family increasingly depends on the influence of society, despite its openness. Within the family, the importance of interpersonal relationships increases, consumer relations between spouses and their children dominate. The rejection of patriarchy, freedom of emotional self-expression are signs of a new family relationship of the 21st century.
Keywords: indigenous people of Siberia, wedding ceremony, tradition, neotraditionalism, material culture, spiritual culture, traditional society.
