Мифотворчество как феномен культуры аборигенов Нижнего Амура и Сахалина ХIX – XXI веков

摘要

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