Ecological Dimension of Culture of Indigenous Minoroties in Russian Arctic Area

In the article, there have been analyzed the basic principles of contemporary science in study of the problem of culture code stability of the northern indigenous minorities which development was strongly influenced by the factors like nature and climate, namely by extreme conditions of human life and activity. This problem is important today as preservation of culture of the northern indigenous small ethnic communities and in fact their preservation as social, and cultural phenomena of the human civilization is of an ethic, scientific and practical interest. The authors proceeded from the assumption that the spiritual and material life of these minorities was based on the principles of "the ecological imperative" (the term is offered by the Academician N. N. Moiseev for designation of ethic content of human-nature interactions at the stage when the ecological crisis threatens the mankind). The authors have proposed to understand the reasons for sustainability of all the spheres of the minorities life under growing pressure of the external civilization by using an analysis of different culture phenomena, which are similar among the ethnic groups living independently on the vast territories and have no opportunity to communicate. That kind of culture "texts" reveals the process of human adaptation not only to the survival but also to the full value life under the conditions that are severe for representatives of other cultures

Biology · Civilization · Ecological crisis · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Indigenous · Indigenous culture · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Psychology · Ecology