Representation of the Ethnicity of Small Indigenous Peoples. Introduction to the Special Topic of the Issue

The indigenous peoples of Russia exist as a separate category according to the official list, which includes 47 peoples. The indigenous people of small numbers are preserved not only due to the traditional culture inherited from their ancestors and the connection with the ancestral territory of their formation, but also due to the established relations with the surrounding peoples. This thematic section includes a study of the processes and strategies for transforming the lives of indigenous peoples. How does the image of indigenous peoples change over time? How does cyberreality merge with reality, and cyberethnicity become an integral part of modern ethnicity? How do habitual patterns of behavior and activity change, and does locality connect with globality? The selection of articles has a wide thematic and temporal coverage from the study of the perception of ethnicity in the 1920s to today's realities. The authors studied the strategies of representation of ethnicity in the 1920s - 1930s, as well as modern ethnic processes, including virtual interaction. The papers use various tools to analyze modern forms of ethnicity, including cartography and cyberethnography. The topic of the recently published results of the All-Russian Census of the Population among Small Indigenous Peoples is touched upon in the section, which actualizes and unites the experiences of positioning identity among ethnic communities. We hope that these papers will help to see new perspectives on the ethnic identity of small indigenous peoples, and new methods and broad thematic and time frames will enable a comprehensive analysis. The research results will help to expand the topic, update it and emphasize the current realities. Meanwhile, indigenous minorities today are characterized by adaptability, plasticity and strategic thinking, and the study of their resource potential is the task of modern researchers. The author declares no conflict of interests.

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