Control Over Energy is “Hot” Societies, and Dissolution of Energy “Cold

The article is devoted to the possibility of application of the well-known ethnographers, historians, cultural scientists, sociologists of the concept of binary oppositions of the French scientist Claude levy-Strauss (1908–2009) for cross-cultural research of ethnic features of the use of energy by “hot” industrial and “cold” traditional societies in the Russian North in the 18th‐21th centuries. “Hot” societies seek to control energy, constantly increasing its production, consumption, and the amount of information and knowledge associated with these processes. “Cold” societies try to limit themselves to the reproduction of already long-discovered ancestors, established technologies of life support system, preservation of traditional conditions of their original existence. The proximity of the resettlement and indigenous peoples in the Northern regions for several centuries inevitably leads to contacts and mutual exchange of cultural values, including in the field of energy consumption. However, the problem of choosing the optimal way of energy use in severe climatic conditions remains unresolved

Biology · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Economy · Energy (signal processing · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Field (mathematics · Geography · Indigenous · Industrial society · Political science · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology

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  Open Access•E Davydova, Elena A Davydova•Kunstkamera•2018

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