The Image of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia in D.I. Karatanov Creative Work

The Impact of Global Transformations on the Processes of Regional and Ethnic Identity of Indigenous Peoples Siberian Arctic

“…In scientific discussions, they single out processes of deprivation of unique social and cultural practices of indigenous peoples of the Siberian Arctic Region, and general social ill-being of these ethno-cultural groups (Slezkine, 1994). In the cultural sphere there exist simultaneously myths about the North and Siberia as about some sacred space, and they develop a theme of peculiar "northern" or "circumpolar" civilization, shamanism as a religious basis of the regional cultural identity of the indigenous people, they create images of special ecological community, wherein northern people and northern nature coexist in their original ancient harmony (Reznikova, 2015;Sitnikova, 2014;Smolina, 2015;Seredkina, 2014). Researchers pay special attention to the unique economic and cultural practices of the indigenous people of the Siberian Arctic Region, and they are very anxious about the fact, that these unique economic, ecological and cultural practices will vanish, as soon as the languages of the native people and ethnic processes of the indigenous people's self-identification disappear, (Sillanpää, 2015;Ilbeykina, 2014).…”