Open AccessCORRELATION OF MENTALITY WITH CULTS AND LIFE-SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMUR-SAKHALIN REGION
Author(s) -
Sergey V. Bereznitsky
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.61-69
Subject(s) - indigenous , ideology , ethnic group , relation (database) , sociology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , anthropology , politics , ecology , political science , philosophy , computer science , law , biology , database
The aim of the research is to search for the regularities of the mechanism of functioning of the mentality of the Tungus-Manchus and Paleoasiatics of the Amur-Sakhalin region in relation to their complexes of cults, beliefs, rituals, and life-supporting technologies. The Tungus-Manchu and Paleoasiatics mentality is understood as a way of thinking based on specific worldview archetypes, knowledge, life-supporting technologies, a complex of dominant needs, beliefs, cults, traditions, and values. The system of life activity is considered as a complex of historically formed and constantly evolving cultural, ideological, economic and household components that allow an ethnic group to be preserved and reproduced in a specific geoanthropogenic landscape, creatively develop and improve its basic ethno-cultural features as global values. According to the author, the interaction of the mentality and the system of life activity is a bi-directional process: on the one hand, the mentality determines the ways and forms of life activity, on the other - the elements of culture that form the basis of life activity, make up the patterns, patterns, models and results of thinking that characterize the features of the ethno-cultural mentality of the ethnic community...