CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF THE EVENKS OF NORTH-EASTERN CHINA AND THE AMUR REGION IN ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY STUDIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article studies artistic ethnography, which, together with the scientific research of religious scholars, ethnographers and literary critics, is becoming a valuable source of reconstruction of customs and traditions of the Evenks living in the adjacent territories of China and Russia. The objective of the research is to review the ethnographic and artistic texts of Russian and Chinese writers of the 20th century, who explored the culture and traditions of the Russian Evenks and Orochons of China through imagological artistic images of perception and self-perception of representatives of the Evenk ethnic group. The author focuses on the perception of representatives of one culture by representatives of another ethnic group through the prism of ethnic traditions. The article discusses the key stages in the formation of artistic ethnography in Russian and Chinese literature during the 20th century. The researcher relies on the methodology of comparative literary criticism, which includes typological, motivic, inter- and contextual analysis, as well as the historical method. The artistic ethnographic texts of Chinese and Russian writers are interpreted to study artistic images of perception and self-perception of representatives of the Evenk ethnic group. The article contributes to the analysis of the ethnic features of the Evenk identity, to the development of scientific research on the artistic image of perception within the framework of modern imagology. It will be of interest to specialists in the field of ethnography, religious studies and literary studies.