Game culture of Izhma’s reindeer breeders: to a question of the Komi-Nenets cross-cultural contacts
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History, ethnography, archeology
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Candidate of Philological Sciences Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Science Centre of Ural Branch of the RAS Syktyvkar, Russia [email protected]
Abstract:In article on the basis of own field materials which are written down in 2014–2016 in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug the games which were widespread among the Izhma’s reindeer breeders time are considered for the first. The specified territory is one of interesting contact zones of the European Northeast of
Russia where throughout several centuries active ethnocultural ties between the Komi, Nenets and Russians are observed. In work an attempt to describe the games which appeared in repertoire of the Komi-Izhma under the influence of the Nenets culture is made. It is about childish sports and entertainments with «reindeer-breeding subject»: games with rules and funs with deer horns and joints, bird’s beaks dolls. Presumably, these games are loans which are carried out when Izhma-Komi mastered reindeer-breeding type of managing at tundra Nenets. However, occurring among Izhma-Komi they get peculiar features. Coloring in them is shown in original national terminology – naming of deer, teams, chum and its components. Thanks to these games Izhma game culture considerably differs from the all-Komi game tradition presented mainly on the basis of a Vychegda-Sysol area. Field material shows, what not all Nenets games were included into Izhma’s reindeer-breeding life (for example, games puzzles made of deer bones, wooden nails and others). It is possible to call the considered games with reindeer-breeding subject «programming» as they contain the worldview information transferred to children by adults and seniors in a game easy form.
Key words: Izhma-Komi, national games, deer bones, Komi-Nenets contacts, interaction, reindeer-breeding culture.
Abstract:In article on the basis of own field materials which are written down in 2014–2016 in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug the games which were widespread among the Izhma’s reindeer breeders time are considered for the first. The specified territory is one of interesting contact zones of the European Northeast of
Russia where throughout several centuries active ethnocultural ties between the Komi, Nenets and Russians are observed. In work an attempt to describe the games which appeared in repertoire of the Komi-Izhma under the influence of the Nenets culture is made. It is about childish sports and entertainments with «reindeer-breeding subject»: games with rules and funs with deer horns and joints, bird’s beaks dolls. Presumably, these games are loans which are carried out when Izhma-Komi mastered reindeer-breeding type of managing at tundra Nenets. However, occurring among Izhma-Komi they get peculiar features. Coloring in them is shown in original national terminology – naming of deer, teams, chum and its components. Thanks to these games Izhma game culture considerably differs from the all-Komi game tradition presented mainly on the basis of a Vychegda-Sysol area. Field material shows, what not all Nenets games were included into Izhma’s reindeer-breeding life (for example, games puzzles made of deer bones, wooden nails and others). It is possible to call the considered games with reindeer-breeding subject «programming» as they contain the worldview information transferred to children by adults and seniors in a game easy form.
Key words: Izhma-Komi, national games, deer bones, Komi-Nenets contacts, interaction, reindeer-breeding culture.
