Reproduction of Practices outside the Tradition (the Case of Rural Timing Practices Based on the Sun Observation)

Petriashin, Stanislav

doi:10.7868/S50000339-5-1

RAS Global AffairsЛатинская Америка Latinskaia Amerika

ISSN (Print) 0044748X

ISSN (Online) 3034-557X

Reproduction of Practices outside the Tradition (the Case of Rural Timing Practices Based on the Sun Observation)

PII

S0869-54150000339-5-1

DOI

10.7868/S50000339-5-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

Stanislav Petriashin

Volume/ Edition

Volume / Issue 2

Pages

172-186

Abstract

The paper raises the question of intergenerational reproduction of practices outside the tradition’s mechanism (transmission of experience from human to human), taking the case of rural timing practices based on the observation of the sun. The study draws principally on the fieldwork data collected in the Middle Ural region in 2015–16. The role of things in tradition’s mechanism was studied to argue about the non-traditionality of timing practices grounded in the observation of lightand shadows in the space of the house and courtyard. I employ the affordance theory (J. Gibson, H. Heft, and others) to conceptualize the non-traditional ways of using things. Within the framework of this theory, I propose a two-tier analytical model describing the conditions of existence and perception of affordances which make possible the “invention” of above-mentioned practices by different people independently of each other (outside the tradition).

Keywords

tradition, materiality, affordance theory, sun, time

Date of publication

15.09.2025

Year of publication

2025

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536

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GOST	Petriashin S. Reproduction of Practices outside the Tradition (the Case of Rural Timing Practices Based on the Sun Observation) // Ethno review. – 2018. – Issue 2 C. 172-186 . DOI: 10.7868/S50000339-5-1
MLA	Petriashin, Stanislav "Reproduction of Practices outside the Tradition (the Case of Rural Timing Practices Based on the Sun Observation)." Ethno review. 2 (2018).:172-186. DOI: 10.7868/S50000339-5-1
APA	Petriashin S. (2018). Reproduction of Practices outside the Tradition (the Case of Rural Timing Practices Based on the Sun Observation). Ethno review. no. 2, pp.172-186 DOI: 10.7868/S50000339-5-1

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