Факторы и критерии культурного ренессанса как отражения взаимодействия этнического символизма и знаковости массовой культуры: на примере якутской культуры

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to shed light on the topic of socio-cultural transformations reflecting the ability of ethnic culture to capture the era of European Modernism through art, using Yakut culture as an example. The said phenomenon fits into a “reflected” cultural renaissance, similar to the Russian Silver Age at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Scientific novelty of the study lies in revealing the stage-by-stage character of Yakut cultural dynamics, analysing the possibilities of success or failure of ethno-cultural modernisation in the paradigm of ethnic Modernism; the examples of the phenomenon of ethnic Modernism in Yakut cinema with reference to auteurs and their films are provided. The peculiarity of the Yakut cultural renaissance is in the synthesis of modernist metaphysics and ethno-cultural symbolic capital against the background of the growing pressure of global mass culture and, accordingly, assimilation and loss of the ethnic world. As a result, the researcher has proved the existence of a cultural stage identified as the “Silver Age of Yakut Culture”. The presence of mass iconic culture that is opposed to symbolic ethnic culture becomes a factor of the cultural renaissance. It has been shown that an ethnic person is able to restore meanings of Modernism at the present stage of global Postmodernism and Altermodernism.