• Original research article
  • July 1, 2016
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IMAGE OF FEMALE HUMAN BEING ASI AS A CONSTANT OF EVENK CULTURE

Abstract

In this paper the image of a woman is considered as a constant of Evenk culture. In order to describe the national specificity of the concept the authors examine the images of women presented in Evenk heroic legends, and also give an analysis of the responses of Evenk native speakers obtained in the course of a free associative experiment. The experiment results confirm that for a modern Evenk native speaker the line “woman-mother as a head of family” is relevant to this day and is a constant of Evenk culture.

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Author information

Nataliya Egorovna Zakharova

The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Nadezhda Prokop'evna Nikolaeva

North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk

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Publication history

  • Published: July 1, 2016.

Keywords

  • языковое сознание
  • эвенкийский язык
  • культурная константа
  • ассоциативный эксперимент
  • образ
  • linguistic consciousness
  • Evenk language
  • cultural constant
  • associative experiment
  • image

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