Zhenshchina I Ritual V Buryatskoy Traditsii

Zhilishche, ochag, sem'ya - malyy zhenskiy kosmos, s kotorym svyazany obryady v traditsionnoy kul'ture buryat kontsa XIX - nachala KhKh v., oberegayushchie zhenskoe prostranstvo. V orbitu etogo prostranstva byla vklyuchena vsya sistema zhizneobespecheniya obshchestva, v kotorom pozhilye, blagopoluchno rozhavshie zhenshchiny zanimali vedushchee polozhenie, chto svidetel'stvuet o bytovanii sledov materinskogo kul'ta. Vystupaya v kachestve sub"ekta obryada, oni vypolnyali zhrecheskie funktsii posvyatitel'nits: rukovodili okkazional'nymi obryadami, a takzhe zhiznennogo i kalendarnogo tsiklov; gotovili ritual'nuyu pishchu; umilostivlyali bozhestva ognya i prirody; kormili etoy pishchey uchastnikov obryadovogo deystva; provodili magicheskie ritualy initsiatsiy s neofitami. Slozhivshiysya obraz materi - mediatora mezhdu mirom lyudey i mirom bogov - obuslovlen funktsiyami, proetsiruyushchimi blagopoluchie sem'i i roda. Rabota prednaznachena dlya vsekh, kto interesuetsya traditsionnoy, regional'noy, etnicheskoy i gendernoy istoriey i kul'turoy.