Traditional Ob-Ugric games with bones and other horn-like materials: structural and typological analysis
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Philology
About author:
T. V. Voldina Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in the game culture of the Khanty and Mansi we can distinguish a whole complex of various games, which are based on interaction with bones as well as with items made of other horn-like materials.
Objective: to present a system of traditional games of the Ob Ugrians with bones and items made of other horn-like materials with the selection and description of these games and related toys.
Research materials: information about the traditional games of the Kazym Khanty, the Ural and Surgut Khanty (partially), the Sosva Mansi and etc., collected and recorded by the author in the field, as well as the materials contained in the published sources.
Results and scientific novelty of the research: information collected on the traditional games of the Khanty and Mansi with bones and items made of other horn-like materials is systematized; classification of these games is presented; a comparative analysis of outdoor games with bones of the Ob-Ugrians and other nations is carried out (partially). Traditional games and toys made of bone and other horn-like materials as one of the direction of
the game culture of the Ob-Ugric peoples are considered for the first time comprehensively and systematically. This approach opens up new opportunities and prospects for the study of other areas of traditional games of the Khanty and Mansi, as well as their «return».
Key words: Ob Ugrians, ethno-pedagogy, game culture, classification of folk games, games with bones, cultural and historical ties.
Acknowledgments: the author is grateful to M. K. Voldina, P. K. Garipova, U. N. Shulgina. The article is devoted to the 95th anniversary of A. M. Takhtueva, the researcher of traditions of the Yugan Khanty and game culture of the Ob Ugrian.
For citation: Voldina T.V. Traditional Ob-Ugric games with bones and other horn-like materials: structural and typological analysis // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2019; 9 (3): 520–532.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in the game culture of the Khanty and Mansi we can distinguish a whole complex of various games, which are based on interaction with bones as well as with items made of other horn-like materials.
Objective: to present a system of traditional games of the Ob Ugrians with bones and items made of other horn-like materials with the selection and description of these games and related toys.
Research materials: information about the traditional games of the Kazym Khanty, the Ural and Surgut Khanty (partially), the Sosva Mansi and etc., collected and recorded by the author in the field, as well as the materials contained in the published sources.
Results and scientific novelty of the research: information collected on the traditional games of the Khanty and Mansi with bones and items made of other horn-like materials is systematized; classification of these games is presented; a comparative analysis of outdoor games with bones of the Ob-Ugrians and other nations is carried out (partially). Traditional games and toys made of bone and other horn-like materials as one of the direction of
the game culture of the Ob-Ugric peoples are considered for the first time comprehensively and systematically. This approach opens up new opportunities and prospects for the study of other areas of traditional games of the Khanty and Mansi, as well as their «return».
Key words: Ob Ugrians, ethno-pedagogy, game culture, classification of folk games, games with bones, cultural and historical ties.
Acknowledgments: the author is grateful to M. K. Voldina, P. K. Garipova, U. N. Shulgina. The article is devoted to the 95th anniversary of A. M. Takhtueva, the researcher of traditions of the Yugan Khanty and game culture of the Ob Ugrian.
For citation: Voldina T.V. Traditional Ob-Ugric games with bones and other horn-like materials: structural and typological analysis // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2019; 9 (3): 520–532.
