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An Analysis Of Shaman Costumes Art Of Northeastern Nation

Posted on:2012-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y B CongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335480232Subject:Special History
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This article takes the shaman costumes as the inspection object. Looking from the academic field, the shaman costumes is subordinate to the category of Shaman Plastic Arts. It is the concept put forward from the view of Ethnology and Art along with widening of the academic vision, when modern scholars are exploring the process of shamanism culture. Taking the substance as a carrier, the shaman costumes are special symbols form, which has its own culturally symbolic meaning. In the process of modeling symbolized, all ethnic groups'finery have both interpenetration and differences in it. But their realize function and purpose is basic consistent, in other words, its reflect the original belief and notion, and then service for ritual activities. Therefore, the study of the Shaman costumes has undergone the process of that from the description of materialized form to the discussion of consciousness attribute for academia.In this paper, there is a textual research on the field of the shaman costumes'form and evolvement of northeast minority to the perspective of history and anthropology, and use symbol anthropology, artistic anthropology and some methods else on the basis of the textual research to deconstruct Shaman Costumes Art of various ethnic, which have the symbolic meaning of symbols, cultural meanings of beliefs, aesthetic features and so on, mirror the human original cultural connotations in Shaman Costumes Art.The paper shows that, shaman costumes form and institution of northeastern nations generally experience'Textures from leather to cloth, accessories from the simple to the complex'. The formation of the Shaman Costumes style is closely related with the regional environment, production method, uniform traditional of nationalities, and is changed with the variation of these conditions.Deconstruct the artistic characteristics of various ethnic Shaman finery to further, The hat modeling in Shamanism are divided into four types, which shape is respectively similar to bird, Feather, horn and crown. The costume modeling in Shamanism is more complicated, it is usually divided into two categories, gown type and shirt type. Cape is not necessary costume, style extremely freely, and dress style is relatively uniform. In brief, everything has its unique artistic features and cultural connotation.Massive culture connotation of primitive belief in Shaman finery art is unfolded before our eyes by numbers of original symbols. First, shamanism trappings itself, namely for the epitome of the God Kingdom of shamanism, show the original notion of all ethnic groups to the cognitive system of the world constitute form; What's more, Shaman finery relying on symbolizing God's color, modeling symbols, and as a result had a kind of sacred power. Accordingly, Shaman finery is also the production of all ethnic groups original soul concept, reflect their cognitive consciousness of Animists; Last but not least, numerous modeling symbols in shamanism trappings involved in all aspects of the primitive belief system, which consist of nature worship, animal worship, totemism and forefather worship.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Northeastern Nation, the Shaman Costumes, Artistic Features, Symbol, Original Notion
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