Construction of Modern Ethno-cultural Identity by Symbolic Art Forms as a Condition for Self-development of Culture: on the Example of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia)

Aleksei G. Pudov¹, Maria I. Koryakina², Evdokia P. Yakovleva³, Liudmila S. Efimova⁴ & Natalia S. Shkurko⁵

^1,2?ssociate Professor of the Social and Humanitarian Disciplines, Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Yakutsk State Agricultural Academy.

Emails: agro_on_line@mail.ru & kormar61@mail.ru

³?ssociate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. Email: yakov_eva@mail.ru

⁴Professor, ?ead of the Department of Cultural Studies, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. Email: ludmilaxoco@mail.ru

⁵?ssociate Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies,Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. Email: nat-shkurko@yandex.ru

 Volume 12, Number 4, July-September, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.15

Abstract

The article reveals the heuristic possibilities of introducing a constructivist interpretation of the phenomena of ethnos and ethno-cultural identity, made on the basis of symbolic constructs of consciousness of a mythological and metaphysical sense. Considering these phenomena from this perspective makes it possible to give a qualitative new interpretation of the understanding of modernizing transformations on the basis of a certain ethno-cultural complex, which is able to effectively conquer the achievements of European modernity. The peculiarity of ethno-cultural identity, which becomes a condition for successful modernization, is modeled on the examples of the development of professional art in Yakutia in the ethno-modern paradigm in the national theater, cinema and choreography. The paper presents the first generalized analysis of the possibilities of ethno-cultural modernization in the “multiple modernities” paradigm, which is based on the ontology of symbolic consciousness of representatives of non-modernized ethnic groups.

 Keywords: ethno-cultural identity, ethnos, constructivism, symbol, ethnic symbolism, mythological and metaphysical symbol of consciousness, Yakutia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, modernization, ethnomodern, ethno-cultural modernization. the national theatre, the national cinema.