Tungus-Manchu Traditional Beliefs. Part 2: Zoomorphic Complex

2022 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
T. Y. Sem
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Old Chinese ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Ancestor Cult ◽  
Animal Images ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Applied Arts

This article describes the zoomorphic complex of Tungus-Manchu beliefs refl ected in mythology, ritual practices, shamanism, and decorative and applied arts. Those beliefs are regarded as a coherent whole within the cultural system. The typology of the zoomorphic complex shows that the key fi gures were the serpent-dragon, the deer, the bear, and the tiger. In traditional worldviews and rituals, they were related to cosmogony, ancestor cult, hunting and fi shing rituals, healing, and initiation shamanic complexes. The semantics of animal images depended on their place in the cultural system, religious ritual, and artistic communication. Comparative analysis demonstrates both ethno-cultural specifi city and universal archetypal characteristics, as well as connection with ancient regional beliefs. The Tungus- Manchu zoomorphic complex originated within the East Asian traditions, having been infl uenced by cultures such as the Old Chinese, Korean, and Jurchen.

scholarly journals Intersection of the Religious and the Secular: The Cemetery Festival in Latvia

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Anita Stasulane
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Research Tools

This article addresses the commemoration of the deceased by examining a peculiar Latvian religious tradition—the cemetery festival. Latvian society is moving down the path to secularization. Participation in religious ritual practices could be expected to decrease in a predominately secular society. Nevertheless, the tradition of the cemetery festival practiced in Latvia shows that the relationship between the religious and the secular is much more complex than simply being in opposition to each other. The analysis is based on data obtained by undertaking fieldwork at cemeteries in Latvia. Participant observation and qualitative in-depth interviews were the main research tools used in the fieldwork. Through an analysis of the fieldwork data, this article explains, first, how honoring of the deceased currently takes place in Latvia; second, the factors which have determined the preservation of the cemetery festival tradition despite the forced secularization of the Soviet period and the general secularization encountered today; third, the relationship between religious and secular activities and their transformation at the cemetery festival.

scholarly journals Notes on the nature of avant-garde and constructivism

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-119
Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
The Family ◽  
Methods Of Reconstruction ◽  
Applied Arts

Based on the materials of the family of architects Zimonenko-Feierstein, this article examines the peculiarities of avant-garde and constructivism. Roman Feierstein and Lyubov Zimonenko graduated the Moscow University of Arctitecture and were taught by pedagogues – the representative of avant-garde and constructivism. To understand the nature of avant-garde and constructivism, the author characterizes the goals and tasks solved by these trends and concepts, as well as analyzes the works of Roman Feierstein and Lyubov Zimonenko. It is demonstrated that constructivists create artistic reality, juxtaposing and simultaneously combining various processes and contents, sending over consciousness of a spectator to a particular reality. This pattern is inherent not only to figurative art, but also literature. The article employs situational and comparative analysis, methods of reconstruction of the works of applied arts and generalization. As a result, the author was able to reveal certain peculiarities of avant-garde and constructivism as an approach and activity, as well as underline that avant-garde and constructivism as approaches also suggest conceptualism. The role of conceptualism consists in outlining and explaining of reality, created by an artist for their audience.

scholarly journals UKRAINIAN, CROATIAN AND POLISH PHRASEMES WITH SOMATIC COMPONENTS AS MEANS OF VERBALIZATION OF THANATOLOGICAL SEMANTICS

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
L. Petrovska ◽  
K. Kirian
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Field Structure ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Polish People ◽  
The World ◽  
Distinct Features

The article is devoted to semantic characteristics and structure of phrasemes in the Ukrainian, Croatian and Polish languages with a somatic component that verbalize the concept of “death” and their significance in the national and language worldview. In the article phraseology is seen in terms of its field structure, when its object is explored from the perspective of the phraseological periphery and core. Phrasemes with a somatic component are one of the largest groups in phraseology, because the anthropomorphic model of the world and human as its key element are among the oldest. The importance of the functions of сertain body parts and organs influences the ability of somatism to form phraseologisms: the more important the organ, the more productive it is in creating phrases. Awareness of the phenomenon of physicality allows people to explain and perceive the phenomenon of death. Сoncept is a complex of ideas about a certain object, which is a reflection of the cultural system in which it is represented. Сoncept is often verbalized in phraseologies, when its components present a particular concept. One of the significant elements of the picture of the world is the concept of “death”. The comparative analysis of somatic phraseologisms of the Ukrainian, Croatian and Polish languages confirms that the picture of the world of Ukrainian, Croatian and Polish people showed through phraseologies has a number of common and distinct features. Identical phraseologisms in form and content attest to the affinity of phraseological fund of the analyzed languages.

scholarly journals EAST ASIAN PATHWAYS TOWARD DEMOCRACY: A QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF “THE THIRD WAVE”

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinan Hao ◽  
Qiqi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Joint Forces

AbstractWhat drove the East Asian tide of democratization during the “Third Wave?” Instead of focusing on a single-factor explanation, we perform qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) on fourteen cases in the region of East Asia from 1980 to 2000 and find three parallel pathways: (1) overthrow model, which features the positive effects of mass mobilization against authoritarianism under a deinstitutionalized authoritarian regime; (2) urban pressure model that works under an institutionalized authoritarian regime; and (3) inside-out model, in which democratization is triggered by the joint forces of domestic and international conditions under both types of regimes. These results demonstrate that the authoritarianstatus quo anteis an important determinant of democratic transitions.

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