ECOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF CULTURE OF INDIGENOUS MINOROTIES IN RUSSIAN ARCTIC AREA

Abstract

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