Myth-Making as a Phenomenon of Aboriginal Culture in the Lower Amur Region and Sakhalin in the 19th-21st Centuries

The subject of the study is the characteristics, trends and regularities of the process of myth-making of \nthe indigenous peoples of the Southern Far East of Russia – the Nanais, Negidals, Orochs, Udeghes, \nUiltas, Ulchs and Nivkhs; mechanisms for formation, borrowing of myths and their socio-cultural \nfunctioning in the traditional and modern ethnic environment. The objective of the work is the study \nof myth-making as the basis of the traditional culture of the Tungusics and Nivkhs of the Southern \nFar East of Russia in the 19th-21st centuries, justification of the idea of aboriginal myth-making as a \nspecial way of ethno-cultural self-development and self-identification of ethnos and personality in a \nmulticultural environment, form-making in the modern aboriginal process of the culture genesis

Ancient history · Epistemology · Mythology · Phenomenon · Classics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy