REVISTA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA. 3ª época. Año 12 N° 34, 2021
interconnected worlds.
The present article looks at a dance as a means of demonstrating certain attitude to
life and death.
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. Theoretical and methodological aspects
The methodology for studying traditional culture involves studying the works of
researchers who have recorded unique materials of Yakut cultural heritage. The Yakuts are
the northernmost Turkic-speaking population. Their historical fate, fraught with difficulties,
influenced their traditional culture and development of certain characteristic of various folk
art types, including traditional dances. Choreography language of the Yakut dances differs
from traditional art of dancing of indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North. Analysis
of traditional Yakut dances shows features common to dances of Turkic-speaking peoples.
The majority of elements in the “Pattern” dance are connected to the ancient Turkic
foundation. The dance has a prominent eastern tone. In this regard of particular interest are
archaic ritual complex, worldview, religious beliefs, system of deep-seated essential values.
The article uses methods based on a comprehensive and systematic analysis of traditional
dance culture. The methodological basis of the theoretical aspect of the study were the
works of Russian researchers of ethnography, folklore, art history, ethnic choreography. The
main methodological framework for reviewing the principles of traditional culture can be
found in the works that belong to the scholars of folk art, folklore, archaeology, traditional
art, and Northern studies, such as: J.G. Gmelin, J.J. Lindenau, R. K Maack, A.F. Middendorff,
I.A. Khudyakov, W.L. Sieroszewski, E.K. Piekarski, N.Ya. Bichurin, V.I. Jochelson, E.B. Tylor,
L.S. Vygotsky, V.Ya. Propp, B.N. Putilov, V.I. Pukhov, N.V. Emelyanov, A.S. Kargin, , E.S.
Novik, A.P. Okladnikov, M.M. Nosov, G.P. Sokolova, D.S. Dugarov, E.E. Alekseev, and others.
The methodology base includes the works of researchers who studied semantic and
functional analysis methods as well as symbolic nature of traditional culture, such as L. Lévy-
Bruhl, A.D. Avdeev, C. Lévi-Strauss, Yu.M. Lotman, M. Eliade, Ye.M. Meletinsky, S.E. Malov,
V.M. Zhirmunsky, V.B. Iordansly, A.K. Baiburin, N.A. Alekseev, A.I. Gogolev, and others.
In the study of traditional Yakut choreography, the works of the following Yakut
folklorists carry weight: A.E. Kulakovsky, G.V. Ksenofontov, P.A. Oyunsky, A.A. Savvin, G.U.
Ergis, and others. The present article employs the traditional choreography studies by
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