Brief Notices of Recent Books relating to the Far East - Shin-Tō. The Way of the Gods in Japan. According to the printed and unprinted Reports of the Japanese Jesuit Missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries. By George Schurhammer, S.J. 11¼ × 9½, 210 pp. + 114 illustrations. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder, 1923.

Introduction. The article considers the features of traditional clothes of descendants of Belarusian peasant migrants of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries living in Siberia and the Far East. Methods and materials. Basic materials of the study is oral descriptions of clothing, which were collected among descendants of migrants, who were born in the 1910s – 1950s, and also visual observation of the samples of traditional clothing which are stored in museums. On the basis of using the comparative-historical and typological methods, the transformations of the practice of making and wearing clothing have been investigated. Analysis. The analysis of the field materials indicates that the traditional clothing of Belarusian migrants continued to play an important role in their domestic culture from the late 19th century to the 1950s – 1960s. The traditional complex of Belarusian clothing has undergone transformations in a new place because of needs to adapt it to the different natural and climatic conditions, by borrowing from the new ethnic environment, as well as general processes of modernization of the way of life. Due to colder climate of the Asian part of Russia, transformations of winter outerwear and shoes were the most dynamic. Results. The features of ethno-cultural identity had an influence on the degree of preservation of the original complex of clothing of the Belarusians. Traditional types of clothing from the places of exit were most preserved in the places of homogenous residence of Belarusian migrants. In cases of dispersed residence with a high proportion of mixed marriages, the Belarusians faster adopted prototypes of clothing that were typical of their new ethnic environment.

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Muslims of Siberia and the Far East in the Civil war

Islamovedenie ◽

10.21779/2077-8155-2020-11-4-27-39 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 27-39

Author(s):

Yarkov Alexander Pavlovich ◽

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Far East ◽

Linguistic Identity ◽

The Far East ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

The history of the Muslims of Siberia and far East during the civil war is not thoroughly investigated. Meanwhile, the processes are interesting, and trend-defining. They are important for understanding what happened in the subsequent Soviet decades. Religion during the war of-ten performed the criterion of ethnic and linguistic identity. This was reflected in naming units (for example – Muslim company, Muslim council, Muslim orphanage). There were few Muslim units of RCP (b) and RKCY where the formation of Soviet personnel managers was on the way. Thus, the ‘Muslims’ marker not only played the role of konfessionism. One could observe a preserved ‘floating’ ethnicity: some siberians defined themselves according to tukhum names, and only then as the Tatars (Bukharians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs), but, in the view of the believers and others – as ‘Muslims’ always.

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Vesoul 2005

Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media ◽

10.15353/kinema.vi.1116 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Ron Holloway

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Film Festivals ◽

Western Countries ◽

The Far East ◽

Asian Cinema ◽

Better Than ◽

International Festival ◽

The Way

VESOUL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ASIAN CINEMAS 2005 Cineastes with an incurable ache for Asian cinema are well advised to seek a cure at Vesoul. Indeed, Asian film festivals in western countries don't get much better than this annual event in an ancient town in the Haute-Saône province in eastern France. Now in its 11th year, the Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinemas (22 February to 1 March 2005) was founded by Martine and Jean-Marc Théouanne, a teaching couple whose love for Asian cinema stems from back-packing days in the Far East. Enthusiastically supported by the home audience, Vesoul was breaking new ground back when Asian cinema was still an exotic sidebar attraction at major international film festivals. Over the years, as the festival extended its influence all the way to Paris, committed Asian cineastes climbed on board to lend a hand with programming and scouting reports - particularly Martine...

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Military Service and Adventures in the Far East

10.1017/cbo9781139178747 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Henry Mackinnon

Keyword(s):

Military Service ◽

Far East ◽

The Far East

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Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2020-7-108-126 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 108-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V. A. Bryzgalin ◽

Е. N. Nikishina

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Regional Culture ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Geographical Patterns ◽

Cross Cultural Differences ◽

The Far East ◽

Sociocultural Approach ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

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