The concept of the academic course curriculum ‘Ethnic cultures of Russia

Abstract

The academic program of the course is based on the author’s many years of experience in theoretical and field research on ethnic cultures of Russia and in teaching the course “Cultures of the peoples of Russia” to students of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Moscow State University. The interdisciplinary and comparative approaches served as the theoretical foundation of this course. Thematically, the material is grouped according to the types of cultures of the peoples of Russia: semi-nomadic hunters and fishermen of the north; nomads of the steppes and mountains; settled mountaineers of the Caucasus; settled inhabitants of the plains; diasporas of the peoples of the near abroad, far from their ancestral homelands. To create a comprehensive picture of the studied peoples, the main attention is focused on the continuity of culture in the following way: from autochthonous traditions to modern professional art (ethnic literature, music, painting, and cinema). Different types of ethnic art and literature are regarded in the context of the processes of cultural identification of peoples in the context of globalization.

References

1. Armyane [Armenians]. 2012. Moscow, Nauka. (In Russ.)

2. Buryaty [Buryats]. 2004. Moscow, Nauka. (In Russ.)

3. Vashchenko A.V. 2013. Vozvrashchenie na Itaku: ehtnokul’turnyi faktor v khudozhestvennom prostranstve vtoroi poloviny XX veka [Return to Ithaca: Ethnocultural factor in artistic space of the second half of the 20th century]. Moscow, Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo universiteta. (In Russ.)

4. Gachev G.D. 1999. Natsional’nye obrazy mira. Evraziya — kosmos kochevnika, zemledel’tsa i gortsa [National Images of the World: Cosmos of Nomad, Cultivator and Mountaineer]. Moscow, DIDIK. (In Russ.)

5. Dubrovin N.F. 2017. Kavkaz i narody ego naselyayushchie [The Caucasus and its peoples]. In 2 volumes. Moscow, Kuchkovo pole; Gornye tekhnologii. (In Russ.)

6. Kartasheva N.V. 2022. Problema rusifikatsii korennykh narodov Sibiri v pravoslavnoi missionerskoi publitsistike vtoroi poloviny XIX v. [Russification of the indigenous peoples of Siberia in the orthodox missionary publicism of the second half of the 19th century]. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, no. 4, pp. 172–183. (In Russ.)

7. Komkov O.A. 2017. K voprosu o kontseptual’nykh osnovaniyakh teorii kul’tury [On the conceptual foundations of the theory of culture]. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, no. 3, pp. 136–145. (In Russ.)

8. Kyrgyzy [Kyrgyz]. 2016. Moscow, Nauka. (In Russ.)

9. Mal’kova V.K. 2022. Ehtnokul’turnoe mnogoobrazie stolitsy Rossii ili “S kem povedesh’sya, ot togo i naberesh’sya” [Ethno-cultural diversity of the Russian capital]. Moscow, IEA RAN. (In Russ.)

10. Nenetskaya literature [Nenets literature]. 2003. Moscow, Literaturnaya Rossiya. (In Russ.)

11. Ovchinnikova Yu.S. 2020. Programma lektsionnogo kursa “Traditsionnaya muzyka v kul’ture narodov mira” [The program of the lecture course “Traditional music in the culture of peoples of the world”]. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, no. 3, pp. 135–143. (In Russ.)

12. Popova E.V. 2011. Kul’tovye pamyatniki i sakral’nye ob”ekty besermyan [Cult monuments and sacral objects of the Besermyans]. Izhevsk, UIYAL URO RAN. (In Russ.)

13. Pribaltiisko-finskie narody Rossii [Baltic-Finnish peoples of Russia]. 2003. Moscow, Nauka. (In Russ.)

14. Khantyiskaya literatura [Khanty litersture]. 2002. Moscow, Literaturnaya Rossiya. (In Russ.)

15. Khomich L.V. 1995. Nentsy [Nenets]. San-Petersbourgh, Russkii dvor. (In Russ.)

16. Yakuty Sakha [Sakha Yakuts]. 2012. Moscow, Nauka. (In Russ.)

17. Spicer E. 1971. Persistent Cultural Systems: A Comparative Study of Identity Systems that Can Adapt to Contrasting Environments. Science, vol. 174, no. 4011, pp. 795–800.