Home – Home – Jornals – Humanitarian sciences in Siberia 2016 number

The article reports about identifying ways to preserve stability as well as to change the Russian location in Siberia during the XVII - early XXI centuries in the worldview aspect of the culture of life support. An important objective in this area is to study the structure of the location and to establish the laws underlying the choice of location and layout of settlements as one of the important elements of the culture of life support. This article discusses some of the principles underlying the selection of methods and programming ethnographic survey of Russian location in Siberia. Modeling method is used to organize the available data on location. To this end, one selects essential characteristics describing with a certain degree of approximation a settlement pattern. They include principles and features of a settlement, communications of the population, location and plan structure of settlements. Modeling allows to consider both the diachronic and synchronous transformations; to reveal worldview attitudes. Working with the model requires the collection of specific data in order to form the source base. Materials are collected and studied on the basis of various sources which include the principles and structure of the location, system of communications; settlements directly described and studied on the spot, informants’ tales about location and settlements, geographic and topographic maps etc. Much attention is paid to the specific ethnographic research methods: method of direct observation, polling method, interviewing.