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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 1

Interethnic community of the Altay Republic: ethnosocial and ethnocultural processes

E. A. Erokhina, S. A. Madyukova, O. A. Persidskaya
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Nikolaeva str., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: interethnic community, ethnosocial processes, ethnocultural processes, ecotourism, indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, the crisis of culture

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of specificity of ethnosocial and ethnocultural processes in the Altay Republic. Using the achievements of the Novosibirsk ethnosociological school, the authors apply the concept of «interethnic community» as a key concept, emphasizing its subjective (the subject of self-organization, formed as a result of stable interethnic cooperation at a local level, such as the municipal and regional level) and objective (the object of state administration which seeks to regulate interethnic relations) components. This methodological position allows us considering the region under study as a systemic integrity in view of its multi-ethnicity, multi-religious character and multi-culturalism. In the article, the economic, social, political and cultural characteristics of the region are given; the areas of inter-ethnic tensions are designated. In particular, since the Kosh-Agach district is a specific area of interethnic tensions, this causes increased interest of the authors to the analysis of ethnosocial processes in this area. On the basis of empirical sociological research conducted in the Altai Republic in the period of 2013–2014 years, the authors examine the characteristics of ethnosocial processes and interethnic relations in the region. The ethnosocial and ethnocultural specifics of the region is reflected in the analysis of the opinions of the respondents and experts community from the region about government; about the attitudes to the influx of migrant workers and specificity of their interaction with the local habitants of the republic, about specificity of internal migration in the Altai Republic; about tourism business in the region and consequences of its impact on the local population, about tourism-related changes in the economic behavior of the inhabitants of the Altai, the relations of Altai people with the tourists; in addition, the respondents' opinions about the problems of indigenous peoples living in the territory of the Republic are analyzed, and in particular, the views about the problems of preservation of cultures of indigenous peoples and the crisis of Altai culture in general.