Myth-Making as a Phenomenon of Aboriginal Culture in the Lower Amur Region and Sakhalin in the 19th-21st Centuries
The subject of the study is the characteristics, trends and regularities of the process of myth-making of the indigenous peoples of the Southern Far East of Russia - the Nanais, Negidals, Orochs, Udeghes, Uiltas, Ulchs and Nivkhs; mechanisms for formation, borrowing of myths and their socio-cultural functioning in the traditional and modern ethnic environment. The objective of the work is the study of myth-making as the basis of the traditional culture of the Tungusics and Nivkhs of the Southern Far East of Russia in the 19th-21st centuries, justiﬁcation of the idea of aboriginal myth-making as a special way of ethno-cultural self-development and self-identiﬁcation of ethnos and personality in a multicultural environment, form-making in the modern aboriginal process of the culture genesis.