Prospects for Ethno-ecological Research of the Cultures of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East

• O.N. Danilova. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service Vladivostok. Russia

• K. A. Kariem

  K. A. Kariem. Princeton University. Princeton NJ, United States

As an essential part of traditional culture (including sustained forms of livelihood on the basis of inherited prevalent thought, values, norms, ways of regulating the interactions between people and nature), the system of nature management of indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East took shape in concrete historical conditions. However, by the beginning of the 21st Century transformations in traditional ways of life of far eastern ethnicities have occurred because of both global and local tendencies of political, economic, sociocultural development.  
Today, interdisciplinary research on local indigenous peoples identifies the ethno-ecological paticularities of adaptation and livelihood in the Far Eastern region. This research illuminates that indigenous peoples have undergone transformations in their traditional culture and that the
dynamics of ethno-cultural processes of their traditional economic activity and the changes in ethno-ecosystem’s structure in the Far Eastern region of Russia are the result of both global and local processes from the end of the 20th C to the beginning of the 21st C.
The purpose of research is the revealing of interrelation of sustainable economic practices and of artistic/ aesthetic creative practices of indigenous people of the Russian Far East. Methodologically, the foundation of this research is the ecosystem paradigm, which allows the
tracing perspectives of culturological, anthropological, and art historical research of the traditional culture of indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East in the context of environmental problems.  
Keywords: indigenous peoples, Russian Far East, nature management, transformation, ethnic
art, sustainable nature use.