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THE EMBODIMENTS OF COMPONENTS OF THE CHRISTMAS CALENDAR RITE OF RUSSIANS AS THE OBJECT OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Authors: Kimeeva Tatyana Ivanovna

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Glushkova Polina Valerievna, Post-Graduate Student, Lecturer, Department of Museology, Kemerovo
State University of Culture and Arts (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: polina-glushkova@mail.ru
The intangible heritage is not detached from the material heritage. The calendar rite in accordance with
the classification of museology in the national intangible heritage belongs to the category expressed in physical
form aspects of culture and tradition. These objects are a tangible expression of the results: the objects associated
with them. Despite the fact that these items are not a subject to the intangible heritage, they are materialized as
components of the tradition. Items related to tradition and endowed with the properties of sacredness, contain
information about it, you need only open their information potential. Under the sacred in this paper, it refers
to a particular semantics, reflecting the ceremonial ritual traditions of Russian Siberia. The Yuletide is a key
holiday winter cycle. It belongs to the big holidays, that is, to those who walked a few days or a week. The
Christmas time period is rife with ritual actions. As part of the Christmas festivities, it identified such major
acts as caroling, glorification, posevanie, mummers, fortune telling, Vecherki, rasstaschikha, horseback riding.
Each act is characterized by the use of certain material objects. For divination, they used mirrors, belts, keys,
tongs, Pima. For the glorification, they manufacture a special star. When mummers used coats, sewn on clothes
bells, armed with iron pots and other metal objects. During the horse riding, they used littered sled embroidered
towels. Objects that are used can be divided in dark and minor key. Key items are native ritual semantics. This
attribute was created specifically for the rite, and after holding, it is destroyed. Objects of the second group – minor – do not contain the actual value of the ritual, but endowed with sacred significance committed during
ceremonies and built their values. Since the core subjects are practically not represented in museum collections,
in the framework of updating, it is necessary to make them play. It identified the two methods of manufacturing
plays: reconstruction and analogy. Minor items are well represented in museum collections, but it is necessary
to disclose their information potential within actualization.
Keywords: intangible cultural heritage, calendar rites, actualization of cultural heritage, subject of
ethnographic collections, sacred semantics.