The childbirth rituals of the Yakuts: traditions and modernity
The purpose of this paper is to consider the transformation of the maternity rites among the Yakuts from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries. The area under research is the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia. The main source base was represented by the authors'...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:8461c4dbce174cf1a4f3d6ef8a492499 2023-05-15T18:06:44+02:00 The childbirth rituals of the Yakuts: traditions and modernity Yakovleva K.M. Yakovlev A.I. 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2021-54-3-19 https://doaj.org/article/8461c4dbce174cf1a4f3d6ef8a492499 RU rus Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RA http://www.ipdn.ru/_private/a54/231-238.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1811-7465 https://doaj.org/toc/2071-0437 doi:10.20874/2071-0437-2021-54-3-19 1811-7465 2071-0437 https://doaj.org/article/8461c4dbce174cf1a4f3d6ef8a492499 Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, Iss 3(54), Pp 231-238 (2021) transformation of traditional culture life cycle ceremonies maternity ceremonies ritual tradition modernity yakuts yakutia Archaeology CC1-960 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2021-54-3-19 2022-12-31T04:53:51Z The purpose of this paper is to consider the transformation of the maternity rites among the Yakuts from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries. The area under research is the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia. The main source base was represented by the authors' field materials collected in 2016-2018 in the Verkhnevilyuysky, Churapchinsky, Ust-Aldansky, and Megino-Kangalassky districts. The field studies were conducted using modern and traditional methods of qualitative sociology. The key methods of collecting field materials included modern historical-anthropological methods of inclusive observation, and expert and in-depth interviewing of local residents. The stages of the ritual behavior practiced in preparation for conception, pregnancy, during childbirth, and during the postpartum period, as well as aimed at survival of the newborn, have been identified and clarified. The study of the transformation of the maternity rites shows that in the modern culture of the Yakuts there are only few prohibitions related to the life of the child in the first days after birth, whereas other rituals have faded away due to the development of medicine and the loss of fear, among both women and society as a whole, of infertility or death of the woman in labor or the baby in the process of birth itself. Article in Journal/Newspaper Republic of Sakha Sakha Yakutia Yakuts Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Sakha VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII 3(54) 231 238 |
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The purpose of this paper is to consider the transformation of the maternity rites among the Yakuts from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries. The area under research is the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia. The main source base was represented by the authors' field materials collected in 2016-2018 in the Verkhnevilyuysky, Churapchinsky, Ust-Aldansky, and Megino-Kangalassky districts. The field studies were conducted using modern and traditional methods of qualitative sociology. The key methods of collecting field materials included modern historical-anthropological methods of inclusive observation, and expert and in-depth interviewing of local residents. The stages of the ritual behavior practiced in preparation for conception, pregnancy, during childbirth, and during the postpartum period, as well as aimed at survival of the newborn, have been identified and clarified. The study of the transformation of the maternity rites shows that in the modern culture of the Yakuts there are only few prohibitions related to the life of the child in the first days after birth, whereas other rituals have faded away due to the development of medicine and the loss of fear, among both women and society as a whole, of infertility or death of the woman in labor or the baby in the process of birth itself. |
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