About changes in the internal interior of dwellings of the Buryats in the second half of the XIX - beginning of XX century

The article is dedicated to the identification of the transformation processes in the internal interior of dwellings of the Buryats in the period of the second half of the XIX - beginning of XX century. Deals with the resource base of the work amounted to archival and literary materials of the time on various ethno-territorial groups of the Buryats. In the second half of the XIX - beginning of XX century the development of the internal interior of the Buryat dwellings continued to exert influence such factors as: religious affiliation of the Buryats (Buddhism has become by this time the dominant religious system of the majority of Trans-Baikal Buryats, and Orthodoxy - Cis-Baikal and Sayan Buryats); trade development (cross-border trade with China, including with Mongolia, and internal trade, mainly regional in fair and petty forms); expansion of the natural exchange with the Russian village; the development of traditional crafts (manufacture of national furniture, utensils, horse accessories, metal products, etc.). To change the internal interior of dwelling influenced also that circumstance, as the proximity or remoteness of the places of residence of the Buryats to the cities (Irkutsk, Verkhneudinsk, Chita, Кяхте, etc.); a value had economic activity. The division of the living space from the Buryats, as before, depend on type of dwelling. In list and log huts conditionally allocated three functional areas (honor, North side, where housed deity, Eastern (men's) and the Western (women)). In the houses of the division remained followers of Buddhism and Shamanism, the Buryats sought not only to mechanically reproduce the inner space of the Yurt in the new for them the type of housing, and to adapt its segments, often adjusting for this strange confessional tradition. People, fully recognize the Christian doctrine, and they were, as a rule, settled the Buryats, in particular, those of them, who dwelt among the Russian peasants, perceived in many respects the situation of the Russian house. Inherent in the earlier period the trend continued their development in the domestic interior of dwellings of the Buryats in the second half of the XIX - beginning of XX century. The need to talk about the strengthening of influence in the time of Russian urban and rural culture in this component of the culture of life-support, particularly in areas of intense inter-ethnic contact (in Cis-Baikal, in some areas of Eastern Sayan and Western Trans-Baikal). Trade with China and included in its composition of Outer Mongolia, as well as the strengthening of Buddhism in a number of ethno-territorial groups, supported connections the Buryats with the Central Asian cultural community that was manifested and in the internal interior of dwellings. Mediators in the inclusion of other cultural items in the traditional setting of the Buryat dwellings, as in the past, were wealthy people.

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