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of time amongst minor nations of the North. Small folklore genres - riddles, proverbs and 

sayings - were of particular relevance in this study. 

Specialised research methods used to analyse the national lexicon revealed that in 

the Yukagir and Alyutor cultures the experience of time in frames habitual to modern man 

and the technological world (a second, a moment, a minute) is almost entirely absent. The 

ethno-semantic difference that exists between the temporal lexemes “period” and “time” is 

due to the fact that archetypal representatives of indigenous peoples of northern Russia 

were and are bearers of a cyclic consciousness. In the daily life of the indigenous peoples of 

the North, the corresponding archetypal orientation of the consciousness does not exclude 

the presence of the linear perception of time usual to modern man. Indeed, the flow of life 

itself poses the idea of remembering the past, generational change and a deep perception of 

the linearity of human life, the pathway from birth to death, and associates progressive 

movement with the natural solar and vegetative cycles of the planet. 

 

 

Bibliographical Abbreviations 

 

 

Abulkhanova-Slavskaya 1983  - K. A. Abulkhanova-Slavskaya, O putyakh postroyeniya tipologii 

lichnosti, in PsZ, 4, 1983, 1, p. 14-29. 

Andreev 1997  

- I. L. Andreev, Vremya ne den’gi, in Den’gi, 3, 1997, p. 39. 

Forsyth 1992 

- James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia’s North 

Asian Colony 1581-1990, Cambridge, 1992.  

Guirenko 1991  

- Nikolay M. Guirenko, Sotsiologiya plemeni, Saint Petersburg, 

1991. 

Gurevich 1972  

- A. Ya. Gurevich, Kategorii srednevekovoy kul’tury, Moscow, 

1972. 

Iarskaya 1989  

- N. V. Iarskaya, Vremya v evolyutsii kul’tury: Filosofskiye ocherki, 

Saratov, 1989. 

Ingold 2000  

- Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment: Essays on 

Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, London & New York, 2000. 

Kibrik et al. 2000  

- A. E. Kibrik, S. V. Kodzasov, I. A. Muravyeva, Yazyk i 

fol’klor alyutortsev, Moscow, 2000. 

Kurilov 2001  

-  Gavril  N.  Kurilov,  Yukagirsko-russkiy slovar’, Novosibirsk, 

2001. 

Melnikova 2003  

- A. A. Melnikova, Yazyk i natsional’nyy kharakter: Vzaimosvyaz’ 

struktury yazyka i mental’nosti, Saint Petersburg, 2003. 

Sirina 2004 

- Anna A. Sirina, Soviet Traditions in the Study of Siberian Hunter-

Gatherer Society, in Alan Barnard (ed.), Hunter-Gatherers in 

History, Archaeology and Anthropology, Oxford, New York, 2004, 

p. 89-101. 

Vakhtin 1992  

- Nikolai B. Vakhtin, Native Peoples of the Russian Far North, 

London, 1992. 

Vansina 1973  

- J. Vansina, Cultures through Time, in Raoul Naroll, Ronald 

Cohen (eds), A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology, 

New York, London, 1973, p. 165-195. 

Yershova 1996  

- G. N. Yershova, Vospriyatiye prostranstva i vremeni, in E. A. 

Okladnikova (ed.), Sistemnyye issledovaniya vzaimosvyazi drevnikh 

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kul’tur Sibiri i Severnoy Ameriki: Dukhovnaya kul’tura, third 

edition, Saint Petersburg, 1996, p. 68-69. 

Yershova 2002  

- G. N. Yershova, Drevnyaya Amerika: polet vo vremeni i 

prostranstve. Mezoamerika, Moscow, 2002. 

 

Keywords:  

indigenous peoples of northern Russia, culture, language, Yukagir, 

Alyutor, Even, time, mentality, time vocabulary, perception of time. 

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 

 

 

AA 

- Acta Archaeologica. Copenhagen. 

AAL 

- Asien Africa Lateinamerica. 

Zeitschrift des Zentralen 

Rates für Asien-, Afrika- und Lateinamerikawissenschaften in 

der DDR. Berlin.

 

AAMT 

- Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. 

Orlando. 

AAnt 

- American Antiquity. Society for American Archaeology. 

Washington. 

ABM - 

Alaska Business Monthly. 

Anchorage. 

Acta Asiatica 

- Acta Asiatica. Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern 

Culture. Tokyo. 

AO - 

Arkheologicheskiye 

otkrytiya (1965-2013). Moscow. 

AOASH 

- Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 

Institute of Oriental Studies. Budapest. 

AP 

- Arkheologiya Podmoskov’ya. Materialy nauchnogo 

seminara. Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of 

Sciences. Moscow. 

ArchOttoman - 

Archivum Ottomanicum. Wiesbaden Ottoman 

Archivesa. Wiesbaden.

 

Ars Judaica 

- Ars Judaica. 

Bar-Ilan University. Ramat Gan. 

Art-menedzher 

- Art-menedzher. Business magazine considering culture 

and art as a resource for the social and economic 

development of society and offering various technologies 

and methodologies of management of this process. 

Moscow. 

Bibliosphera 

- Bibliosphera. The Siberian Branch of the Russian 

Academy of Sciences. Novosibirsk. 

BKF 

- Baltiiskii filologicheskii kurer. Immanuel Kant Baltic 

Federal University. Kaliningrad. 

BM 

- Byulleten’ Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytateley 

prirody. Otdel biologichesky. Moscow Society of 

Naturalists. Moscow. 

BMMS 

- Byulleten Muzeya Marka Shagala. Marc Chagall 

Museum. Vitebsk. 

Byilyie godyi 

- Byilyie godyi. Sochi State University. Sochi. 

CAn 

- Current Anthropology. Chicago. 

CHR 

- The Canadian Historical Review. University of Toronto 

Press. Toronto. 

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