The reflection of mythology and rituals in the modern ornaments of the Amur Nanais

Authors

  • TATYANA Yu. SEM Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-3/33-51

Keywords:

Nanai people, ornament, semantics, symbols, mythology, shamanism

Abstract

The article is devoted to the semantics of the modern ornaments of the Amur Nanais. The study is build around the materials collected by the author during the 2021 expedition to the Nanaysky and Khabarovsky districts of Khabarovsk Krai. Using cross-cultural, semiotic and iconographic methods, the author demonstrates the development of images and motifs in the ornaments, the
preservation of traditions and their transformation. The modern ornaments of the Nanai people present significant iconic and symbolic images of traditional culture such as family tree, mythological human–animal marriage, dragon snake, shaman’s spirit helpers, etc.

Author Biography

  • TATYANA Yu. SEM, Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)

    Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Department of Ethnography of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East.

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Published

30-09-2023

Issue

No. 3 (2023): Humanitarian research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East

Section

ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY IN CIRCUM-PAСIFIC

How to Cite

The reflection of mythology and rituals in the modern ornaments of the Amur Nanais. (2023). Humanitarian Research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East, 3, 33-51. https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-3/33-51