Open AccessTraditional Culture of Modernizational Yakutia: the Problem of Human in the Global Society
Author(s) -
Саргылана Семеновна Игнатьева
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-5-62-65
Subject(s) - civilization , indigenous , modernization theory , human culture , environmental ethics , arctic , sociology , political science , anthropology , biology , law , ecology , philosophy
The article discusses some controversial issues of coexistence of the Arctic locus and the global civilization. Main investigations on this topic are analyzed in the article. The author indicates some features of the Yakut traditional culture, reveals the specific types of traditions which allow discovering the “cultural core” of the indigenous peoples of the North at the present stage of the region’s development. Special attention is focused on the role of human in the strategic culture and cultural modernization of Yakutia.