If, as I will try to illustrate in this paper, much of the conceptual raw material for our understanding of the world comes from language, then what we know as “nature” (what, that is, natural scientists, including folk scientists, invest their energies in investigating) turns out to be—or at least starts out as—a disguise for “culture.” Specifically, important aspects of the natural world are ...

This article examines the main elements of subject and spiritual culture Kazakh traditional wooden ornament. The study primordially preserved original wood products crafts carpenters 18th – early 20th centuries. Review works peoples Central Asia on art woodcarving, design decoration. Including «Kazakh yurt» by M. S. Mukanov, voluminous research work H. Argynbaev «Craft people», «The crafts» Zha...

The article deals with the actual problems of inheritance ethnic traditions shamanic culture in modern song and storytelling dance art genre comedy miniatures Erzhenzhuan northeast China, which have preserved elements shamanism traditional art. In term shaman first appeared historiography Southern Song Dynasty (南宋) over 800 years ago. Shamanism a broad sense is multicultural tradition, at same ...