(Neo)traditionalism as a form of cultural identity of the inhabitants of Yakutsk

Abstract

The article is aimed at describing the sociocultural situation in the transboundary space of the city of Yakutsk from the perspective of cultural anthropology. The focus is on a marginal person, social forces and movements that exist in the context of cross-cultural communications (within the process of urbanization) and increasing globalization, which only actualizes the issues of identity and self-identification. The article also contains descriptions of the sociocultural landscape, where the process of human socialization begins, and a further process of inculturation is given impetus. Such issues as “Vacuum” and “Oasis” appear in the problem under consideration. “Vacuum” as a phenomenon can be associated with the regional remoteness. In this regard, the territory of Yakutia, like the entire Arctic part of the North-East of Russia, is perceived as a kind of hard-to-reach territory, which develops separately from the Central part of the Russian Federation, the Urals and Western Siberia.