Ust-Tsilma game “The Sheep” as part of the cultural heritage of the Lower Pechora
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Journal’s Subject Headings:
History, ethnography, archeology
About author:
T. V. Voldina Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
V. C. Ledkov Theater of Ob-Ugric peoples «The Sun», Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the folk game with sheep joint bones «The Sheep» is the property of the cultural heritage of the UstTsilma people – residents of the Lower Pechora. It expresses the originality and color of the North Russian traditional culture, which absorbed elements of the cultures of neighboring peoples – the Komi and Nenets having strong cultural and historical ties with the Ob Ugrians.
Objective: to present a structural description of the traditional game of the Ust-Tsilma people «The Sheep» through the prism of cross-cultural relations in games with joint bones of animals and their reflection in culture of the
Khanty and Mansi peoples.
Research materials: field materials of the authors with the involvement of language examples on the topic.
Results and novelty of the research: the article presents a structural description of the folk game “The Sheep”, which discusses the positions of game bones, the rules and the course of the game with its main stages. For comparison, information is provided from other publications about this game, which allows us to judge the degree of preservation of this game tradition in the first quarter of the XXI century.
The game «The Sheep» recorded by the authors is published for the first time and is the most complete version compared to the published information about it. It is recorded from a concrete person – a keeper of folk knowledge. Neither our informant nor her relatives acted as a source for ethnographic research.
Key words: the Ust-Tsilma people, North Russian game traditions, culture of the Lower Pechora, traditional games, games with bones, «The Sheep».
Acknowledgments: the authors thank the informant, editors, and reviewers.
For citation: Voldina T. V., Ledkov V. K. Ust-Tsilma game “The Sheep” as part of the cultural heritage of the Lower Pechora // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (2): 350–358.
V. C. Ledkov Theater of Ob-Ugric peoples «The Sun», Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the folk game with sheep joint bones «The Sheep» is the property of the cultural heritage of the UstTsilma people – residents of the Lower Pechora. It expresses the originality and color of the North Russian traditional culture, which absorbed elements of the cultures of neighboring peoples – the Komi and Nenets having strong cultural and historical ties with the Ob Ugrians.
Objective: to present a structural description of the traditional game of the Ust-Tsilma people «The Sheep» through the prism of cross-cultural relations in games with joint bones of animals and their reflection in culture of the
Khanty and Mansi peoples.
Research materials: field materials of the authors with the involvement of language examples on the topic.
Results and novelty of the research: the article presents a structural description of the folk game “The Sheep”, which discusses the positions of game bones, the rules and the course of the game with its main stages. For comparison, information is provided from other publications about this game, which allows us to judge the degree of preservation of this game tradition in the first quarter of the XXI century.
The game «The Sheep» recorded by the authors is published for the first time and is the most complete version compared to the published information about it. It is recorded from a concrete person – a keeper of folk knowledge. Neither our informant nor her relatives acted as a source for ethnographic research.
Key words: the Ust-Tsilma people, North Russian game traditions, culture of the Lower Pechora, traditional games, games with bones, «The Sheep».
Acknowledgments: the authors thank the informant, editors, and reviewers.
For citation: Voldina T. V., Ledkov V. K. Ust-Tsilma game “The Sheep” as part of the cultural heritage of the Lower Pechora // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (2): 350–358.
