This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia. It reveals the patterns of the processes of penetration, settlement, development and adaptation of Siberian populations from Paleolithic time to Russian colonization in the era of the Russian Empire, during Soviet modernization and in the face of modern challenges. The authors consider the principal interactions (character, stages, conditions), system-related evidence and phenomena that determine the diverse specifics and multidirectional vectors of a change in the ethnic (social, cultural, economic, legal) presence in large subregions of Siberia in the mirror of various theoretical paradigms.This transdisciplinary volume appeals to researchers, lecturers and students in the fields of geography, history, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, archaeology and interfaces to many other disciplines.
I. PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS, GENERAL SCIENTIFIC THEORIES AND HUMANITARIAN PARADIGMS OF SIBERIA RESEARCH
Chapter 1.1. Anthropo- and socio- phenomena in Siberian geo-and biophilosophy
Chapter 1.2. Spatial image: geo-ecological, landscape and ethnocultural frameworks of interdisciplinary research of Siberia
Chapter 1.3. Current methodology of ethnography, history and archeology in the humanitarian and anthropological research discourse of Siberia
Chapter 1.4. Existential philosophy of Siberia
II. SIBERIA - A LONG WAY FROM HUNTERS-GATHERERS AND WARRIORS TO AGRARIANS, BUYERS AND CITIZENS OF IMPERIAL TIME
Chapter 2.1. The Antiquities of Siberia: Archaeological Cultures and Ancient Migrations.
Chapter 2.2. Man and nature of Siberia: from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages.
Chapter 2.3. Russian expansion and appropriation of Siberia: the initial stage (XVI - XVII centuries)
Chapter 2.4. Siberia in the space of the Russian Empire (XVIII- beginning of XX century)
III. SOVIET SIBERIA - NATURAL CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND CONVERSION OF NATURE
Chapter 3.1. Soviet project of Siberia: strategic planning and tactical decisions. Eurasia or Euroamerica?
Chapter 3.2. Russia rooted Siberia: Soviet power in the fight against nature, space and resources
Chapter 3.3. Transformation of the lifestyle of the indigenous peoples of Siberia in the Soviet period (Vorobyova T.V.).
Chapter 3.4. Pacific Russia in the Siberian space: development processes, resource problems and environmental-social challenges (Klimina E.M.)
IV. POST-SOVIET SIBERIA UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF NATIONAL CHALLENGES AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Chapter 4.1. Landscape and Ecological Transformations of Siberia: territorial projection
Chapter 4.2. Socio-economic and ethno-demographic transformations of post-Soviet Siberia
Chapter 4.3. Ethnocultural and identification transformations of the peoples of Siberia
Chapter 4.4. Modern inter-ethnic contacts and ethnic processes in Siberia
V. SIBERIAN ABORIGINES AND ETHNIC CULTURE: FROM PAST TO FUTURE
Chapter 5. 1. Siberian identity and ethnic culture - the dynamics of the past in the future
Chapter 5.2. Ethnocultural features of the perception of the peoples of Siberia: traditions and modernity
Chapter 5.3. Ethnic Culture and Landscape: facets of interaction
Chapter 5.4. Nonlinearity of the geo-cultural development of Siberia during the period of the new millennium attractors
CONCLUSIONS
This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia. It reveals the patterns of the processes of penetration, settlement, development and adaptation of Siberian populations from Paleolithic time to Russian colonization in the era of the Russian Empire, during Soviet modernization and in the face of modern challenges. The authors consider the principal interactions (character, stages, conditions), system-related evidence and phenomena that determine the diverse specifics and multidirectional vectors of a change in the ethnic (social, cultural, economic, legal) presence in large subregions of Siberia in the mirror of various theoretical paradigms.
This transdisciplinary volume appeals to researchers, lecturers and students in the fields of geography, history, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, archaeology and interfaces to many other disciplines.