Ethnicity and the forms of its manifestation in culture and public life (using the example of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East)

Abstract

The article analyzes the ethnicity of the indigenous peoples of the North, taking into account the biological and genetic characteristics of their development, the form of its manifestation in public life and culture. The formed biological type of ethnic groups living in extreme conditions of the natural and climatic environment is characterized by the dominant development of right-hemisphere (figurative) thinking, which contributes to building harmonic relations with nature and the outside world. Ethnicity is manifested in the presence of a developed ethnic identity among the peoples of the North, enshrined in the self-name of the ethnic group, the national language (most often spoken), the peculiarities of culture and life, the originality of the system of kinship, nutrition, religion and religious cults. Ethnicity for small peoples are a way of preserving and developing their individuality in a multinational society. This is the possibility of its entry into the national cultures of other peoples. The article is a revised and supplemented, published earlier, article by the author "Ethnicity as a factor in the socio-cultural self-determination of the people (based on the material of the peoples of the North) (Kryaklinа 1998).