Introduction. On the example of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra article considers regional features ethno-cultural policy. Some legislative protection and preservation identity representatives indigenous minorities are distinguished. Ethnic self-identification titular ethnic groups updated. The purpose study is to reveal role practices in reference Khanty, Mansi, Nenets. Materials Meth...

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of ethno-oriented language teaching foreign students. definition communicative ethnostistics given, its object and subject are considered. urgency problem substantiated. aim work consider different styles national communication, as well parameters that used describe style communication. Two main types acquisition considered − non-communicative. Listen...

Every generation of population (cohort) has its own specific traditions of games. Changes in traditions are determined by cultural environment of a country, possibilities to be at leisure and to play one game or another. Objectives are to evaluate how much the game’s traditions of separate cohorts changed, how game’s supply influence game’s usage traditions. The data was collected from survey o...

1. The story of contemporary Chinese culture is, to a large degree, a story of amalgamation: cultural identities in China form in relation to a number of competing discourses and traditions—from consumerism and nationalism, to Maoism and Confucianism. In their compelling work Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird carefully examine the production and performance o...

Ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. The term ‘Ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

This study examined the hypothesis that differences in the cultural norms of Anglo-Americans and three other ethnic groups—Asian, Hispanic, and Black Americans—will result in different behaviors on a group task. Student subjects were assigned to ethnically diverse or allAnglo groups. Individual and group responses were measured using a Prisoner's Dilemma task in which participants could choose ...

In this study we analyze transitions to first marriage in Kyrgyzstan – one of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia. We use retrospective survey data collected in 2011/12 that contain full partnership histories of a representative sample of men and women in that country. We estimate hazard regression models to examine competing risks of arranged and non-arranged marriage among Kyrgyz and Uzbek...

The article addresses the problem of ethnocultural identity in context research by representatives symbolic interactionism. acquires relevance epoch globalisation, when differences between nations and ethno-social groups are erased, ignoring folk traditions, customs, rituals, i.e. historically culturally established values that distinguish one nation from another, on hand, enrich multinational ...