Ecological Culture of Inner Asian Nomads: Past, Present and Future

Abstract

This article reveals specific features of the ecological culture of Inner Asian nomads and reasons of the contemporary environmental crisis, which lies in the departure from the traditional relations between man and nature. The authors try to understand the changes in ecological culture of nomads, and explain that resorting to the historical experience of traditional cultures is also necessary in order to tackle the problem of the greatest possible adaptation of ethnic culture of each nation to modern highly urbanized civilization. The research work was conducted on basis of the statistical data and periodicals, results of long-term field research of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.