Flier Andrey Yakovlevich,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Chief Researcher
Lykhachev Russian Research Institute
for Cultural and Natural Heritage
e-mail: andrey.flier@yandex.ru

Local cultural identity: the experience of systematization

Abstract. The article deals with the problem of the complex nature of the local cultural identity of historical communities, which includes social, confessional, political and ethnic system-forming features of identity, with situational dominance of each type. However, in different historical epochs domination of certain types took place. The most typical (frequency) algorithm for the formation of features of a local identity is analyzed.

Keywords. Culture, local identity, social, confessional, political and ethnic variants of the features of the identity, the algorithm for the formation of features of identity.
 

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