The Book about Geocultures of the Arctic

Abstract

Review of the book of Geocultures of the Arctic: methodology of analysis and applied research. Monograph / Zamyatin D.N. and Romanova E.N. (Ed.), Moscow: Kanon+, ROOI Reabilitatsiya, 2007. 504 p. This article reviews the monograph, published by the Laboratory of complex geocultural studies of the Arctic of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts (Yakutsk) and devoted to the study of key factors in the development of an integrated information and cultural space of the North. It presents the results of interdisciplinary, theoretical and methodological and applied research of an international team of scientists. Geocultures of the Arctic are considered in the context of different discourses (philosophical, cultural, cultural and geographical, ethnographic, anthropological, philological, etc.). It was made the attempt of a holistic representation of problems of interaction of cultures and spaces of the circumpolar world, of understanding different sections of the cultural landscape and creation of the three-dimensional pattern of this unique region.