Title of the article:

THE ROLE OF ETHNOCULTURAL COMPONENTS IN THE IDENTITY OF THE EAST SLAVIC POPULATION OF SIBERIA

Author(s):

Zhigunova, M.A., Fedorov, R.Yu.

Information about the author/authors

Marina A. Zhigunova — PhD in History, Chief Researcher, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, K. Marks Ave., 15, 644024 Omsk, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000‑0002‑9719‑2525
E-mail: marizh.omsk@mail.ru. 

Roman Yu. Fedorov — DSc in History, Director of Research, Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina St., 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000‑0002‑3658‑746X
E-mail: r_fedorov@mail.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2024

Volume

Vol. 73

Pages

pp. 47–59

Received

September 11, 2023

Approved after reviewing

March 22, 2024

Date of publication

September 25, 2024

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-73-47-59

Index UDK

394

Index BBK

63.5

Acknowledgements

The work was carried out under state assignments of the Institute of Archeology, Anthropology and Ethnography SB RAS (Project No. 0264‑2022‑0002) and the Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS (Project No. FWRZ-2021–0006).

Abstract

The present study, via the cases of territorial-ethnographic and confessional-ethnographic groups revealed the role of ethnocultural components in the emergence of various forms of identity of the Eastern Slavs, which had lived in Siberia since the end of 16th century up to the 2020s and established that the following patterns exist in the shaping of new forms of ethnocultural identity of the East Slavic population of Siberia. Some of these identity forms had a local way and maintained their steady existence within the territorial boundaries of certain areas or regions. Another part of them underwent the path of transformation from local to diffuse existing. As a rule, such names (initially having a narrow meaning) gradually turned into peculiar ethnocultural stereotypes, which in different regions were associated with certain groups of old settlers, peasants-migrants or old believers. Characteristic feature of these names was that they identified many unrelated local communities that were only symbolically united by some ethno-differentiating attribute, while possessing cultural variability. The analysis indicates that different forms of ethnocultural identity of the East Slavic population of Siberia had their own life cycles. As a rule, specific ethnocultural names that arose in Siberia ceased their widespread existence when the differences between the groups they designated were erased. During the first decades of the 21th century, among the East Slavic population of Siberia dominates multi-level way of ethno-cultural identity, the most important components of which are general civil Russian identity, as well as ethnic and regional Siberian identity.

Keywords

Siberia, Eastern Slavs, Self-awareness, Ethnocultural Identity, Interethnic Interactions, Ethnocultural Stereotypes.

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