Kalmyk costume in the prism of the imaging and sign system of Buddhism
No. 4 (15) (2019), Forum
No. 4 (15) (2019)

Kalmyk costume in the prism of the imaging and sign system of Buddhism

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УДК7.031.2:24(470.47) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.04.006
Published 2019-12-27
Kermen Petrovna Batyreva
Kalmyk State University

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№ 4 (15) 2019 "Искусство Евразии", научный журнал об искусстве.
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folk costume, Kalmyk folk art, headdress, hat, Buddhism, Mandala, space, home, image, sign, symbol, sign system,

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Batyreva K. P. Kalmyk costume in the prism of the imaging and sign system of Buddhism // The Art of Eurasia, 2019. № 4 (15). P. 66-79. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.04.006.
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Abstract

The article describes the structure of the Kalmyk folk costume with the release of a  headdress as a sign. The author includes the Kalmyk folk costume in the context of the  relationship between man and the universe, for the first time considering it from the point of view of a complex of art history, cultural, aesthetic, semiotic approaches to folk art. The  article presents the folk costume as a sign system and a phenomenon of art, caused by  the material and spiritual culture of the ethnos. The connection of the spiritual and ethical foundations and artistic traditions of the Kalmyk people is the basis of its analysis and  interpretation. The results reveal the spatial reference mark headdress and the entire system as a whole suit. In comparison, structural parts of the traditional costume and  dwellings found their identity in the creation of the material sphere of human existence, the universal space segmentation. The symbolism of the Buddhist world as a late formation of the traditional culture of the Kalmyks distinctive way implemented in the design of the  headdress «hadzhilga». These results are significant for the figurative-symbolic and worldview interpretation of the traditional and modern art of the Eurasian nomadic peoples and the peoples of the Buddhist area.

https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2019.04.006

Acknowledgments

This article was written with the support of the RFBR grant «Folk arts and crafts of the Oirats of Mongolia and the Kalmyks of Russia: general and special in comparative analysis» No. 19-512-44002/19.

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