The retraditionalization in the culture of the Russian rural population of the Western Siberia (XX - first decades of the XXI century)

The XX century and the first decades of the XXI century are characterized by the process of retraditionalization, which is well fixed by expeditionary ethnographic materials within the framework of the culture of life support. On the example of the Russian rural population of the Western Siberia, vital culture has demonstrated some forms of retraditionalization — substitution technologies in economic life, social mutual assistance and support and actualization of irrational knowledge. The considered forms of retraditionalization perform the functions of adaptation to complex socio-economic conditions and symbolic identification of social and ethnic groups.