The research area analyzed local ethnic traditions of Russian old-timers and their modern representations in the historical and cultural landscape of the multi-ethnic region of Yakutia. Based on the application of theoretical and methodological approaches and research areas of cultural geography and social anthropology/Ethnography, the regional cultural landscape of the multi-ethnic population of the Lena river basin is analyzed; the formation and transformation of the ethnic identity of the population of the studied region are considered.
5.1 Social Anthropology and Ethnic Identity
