Costume complex of the shaman and his attributes in modern cult practice of the people of Altai

In article the principles of designing of a suit of the modern Altai shaman are described. Practice of the modern shaman. Problems of sources of creation of a traditional complex of a cult suit of indigenous people of Altai are considered. The main attributes of a shaman ceremony are analyzed. Influence on a design and dressing of a national suit of the southern and northern Altaians of mythological ideas and features of a cosmogony and cosmology of the people of Altai is investigated. Jewelry and ornaments are considered as the phenomenon sacral, “protecting”. In sciences culture and art the increasing relevance is acquired by a problem of studying and scientific judgment of science about culture heritage. The large volume of ethnographic material is saved up, exist classification and typology of phenomena of material culture. But at richness of the saved-up facts and empirical observations, there are lacunas in science about culture and their art criticism understanding, thus, the picture of the world of the person of the studied period's remains incomplete, not conjoint. It concerns, for example, a phenomenon of cult practice of Shamanism among ethnic groups in the territory of modern Mountain Altai. This area of knowledge, in our opinion, is capable to consider ethno cultural traditions in all their completeness, both in diachronic, and in synchronic aspects. Ethno art Studies, leaning on phenomenological and hermeneutical methods, it is capable to reveal an intrinsic component of a phenomenon of material culture, to reveal its ontological status. The Shamanism as traditional form of religious consciousness of many cultures is studied sufficiently. Today scientific literature has a set of the materials concerning Shamanism typology: Siberian, American, Indonesian, people of Australia and Oceania, etc. These works became bases to ethnological, theological, sociological and psychological ways of its research. Studying of cult practice and the related material attributes of Shamanism demands from researchers of application of cross-disciplinary approaches, individually developed research techniques, and ability to creatively interpret the available materials. Studying, for example, of shaman tambourines can be considered as full if it is carried out with the help the different scientific methods: from positions of musicology, ethnography, linguistics, religious studies, art criticism and cultural science. In the real work the author will make an attempt to connect decorative registration of a tambourine of the shaman with the principles of sound extraction in ceremonial practice. Subject of the real research is use of traditional attributes of the shaman in modern cult practice. Activity of Evgeny Aleksandrovich Begeev who is carrying out cult practicing of Shamanism in the Altai Republic is a concrete example. Authors made a forwarding trip the remote regions of Mountain Altai in September 2017 where they met Evgeny Aleksandrovich. Begeev - indigenous Altaian, explains to the practicing with the patrimonial, hereditary “gift” passing in his family from father to son. According to Begeev, careful maintaining patrimonial traditions in production of attributes of a costume complex of the shaman, provides full communication with spirits patrons. Careful attitude to national and patrimonial traditions, preservation of cult practice of traditional Shamanism, authors see in the following: experiencing during the different historical periods cultural expansion of the next people, own pantheon, the developed mythology, allowed keeping national and cultural identity.

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