В статье рассматриваются традиционные соматические представления эвенов и северных яку-тов. С точки зрения семиотики культуры проводится исследование представлений о волосах человека как части мировоззренческой системы, мирочувствования, языковой картины мира и традиционной культуры. Дается подробный детальный анализ лингвокультурной единицы "волосы" через воплощение в мифе, ритуале и символе. Изучены приметы, запреты (табу), обычаи, обряды и повседневные ритуальные практики, связанные с традиционными представлениями о волосах, рассмотрены народное толкование снов, телесные соматизмы в фразеологизмах эвенского и якутского языков, а также накосные украшения тюгясирских эвенов как оберег.
The article examines traditional somatic representations of Evens and Northern Yakuts. Man in traditional somatic ideas, the concept of physicality in culture, of course, this topic is highly relevant at present. At the same time, in modern humanitarian studies, this topic still remains poorly understood, namely, the traditional ideas of the northern peoples about the structure and functioning of the human body, or otherwise – somatic ideas. The author of the article aimed to identify cultural contexts, iconic semantics and functions of such an element of bodily code as hair in the traditional culture of Evens, northern Yakuts. This aim defines the main objectives of the study: to study somatic representations and their influence on the system of traditional worldview of the above-named peoples, to conduct a cognitive and semiotic analysis of the linguistic and cultural unit “hair”. The scientific novelty of the study is that the linguistic and cultural features of the traditional ideas about hair in Evens, northern Yakuts are revealed and analyzed; the somatic concept of hair is a complex, multidimensional structure and has not been the subject of special research. The research methods used in the work are complementary to each other. Theoretical: systemic and comprehensive approaches, comparative historical, cognitive and semiotic methods. Empirical: observations, surveys, interviews, conversations. The main result of the work is the analysis of the linguistic and cultural unit “hair” through incarnation into myth, ritual and symbol. The customs and ritual practices associated with traditional ideas about hair have been studied the interpretation of dreams, bodily somatisms in phraseological units of the Even and Yakut languages are considered, and also examined the oblique decorations of the Tyugyasir Evens.