Sociocultural evolution of perception of the indigenous people of Yugra
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History, ethnography, archeology
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Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article analyzes the changes in the perception in the Russian population of the images of aborigines of Yugra, which were due to the historical memory, socio-cultural processes during the colonization of Siberia and the peculiarities of the worldview of our predecessors.
Objective: to reveal the features of the sociocultural evolution of the images of the population of Yugra. The achievement of this objective is possible in solving a number of important tasks. How has the historical past led to the formation of indigenous population? What were the main characteristics of these images? How and why did the images of the population of Yugra change? And finally, how the transformation of the subjective perception of objective realities depends on the historical memory?
Research materials: are based on the research of written historical sources about the past of Yugra and its adjacent territories from the Middle Ages to the early of XX century; the subjects of the research are changes in the mass perception of ethnic stereotypes; achievements of history, imagology, sociology, anthropology and literary criticism are used as methodological foundations.
Results and novelty of the research: the article analyzed the generation and sociocultural evolution of images of the indigenous population of Yugra as they were reflected in «European», «Russian» consciousness; fixed changes in their perception: gradual shift of attention from negative and eschatological assessments to positive and attractive features. In the same time, the dominance of stereotypes set by the previous cultural experience or introduced from the outside remained. Aborigines were habitually perceived as not quite capable subjects with externally initiated activity. To the turn of XIX–XX centuries the domestic thought continued inversion permutations in the awareness of aborigines. Their images, even though they underwent another transformation, have not been able to get out of the previous image and achieve qualitatively different compliance with presented objects.
Key words: perception, border, identity, image, space, stereotype, region, Yugra.
Acknowledgements: I express my gratitude to Doctor of Historical Sciences A. G. Kiselev and all researchers who consulted the author of this publication.
For citation: Ershov M. F. Sociocultural evolution of perception of the indigenous people of Yugra by the Russians // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 539–548.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article analyzes the changes in the perception in the Russian population of the images of aborigines of Yugra, which were due to the historical memory, socio-cultural processes during the colonization of Siberia and the peculiarities of the worldview of our predecessors.
Objective: to reveal the features of the sociocultural evolution of the images of the population of Yugra. The achievement of this objective is possible in solving a number of important tasks. How has the historical past led to the formation of indigenous population? What were the main characteristics of these images? How and why did the images of the population of Yugra change? And finally, how the transformation of the subjective perception of objective realities depends on the historical memory?
Research materials: are based on the research of written historical sources about the past of Yugra and its adjacent territories from the Middle Ages to the early of XX century; the subjects of the research are changes in the mass perception of ethnic stereotypes; achievements of history, imagology, sociology, anthropology and literary criticism are used as methodological foundations.
Results and novelty of the research: the article analyzed the generation and sociocultural evolution of images of the indigenous population of Yugra as they were reflected in «European», «Russian» consciousness; fixed changes in their perception: gradual shift of attention from negative and eschatological assessments to positive and attractive features. In the same time, the dominance of stereotypes set by the previous cultural experience or introduced from the outside remained. Aborigines were habitually perceived as not quite capable subjects with externally initiated activity. To the turn of XIX–XX centuries the domestic thought continued inversion permutations in the awareness of aborigines. Their images, even though they underwent another transformation, have not been able to get out of the previous image and achieve qualitatively different compliance with presented objects.
Key words: perception, border, identity, image, space, stereotype, region, Yugra.
Acknowledgements: I express my gratitude to Doctor of Historical Sciences A. G. Kiselev and all researchers who consulted the author of this publication.
For citation: Ershov M. F. Sociocultural evolution of perception of the indigenous people of Yugra by the Russians // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 539–548.
