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Ethnocultural Diversity of the North Caucasus: the Interrelation of Unique, Special and General


(Makhachkala)

DOI 10.18522/2072-0181-2015-84-4-97-100
The Ethnic and cultural diversity of the North Caucasus is an unique sociocultural phenomenon, which is based on the coexistence of multiple ethnic groups, with their historical, religious, ethnographic, social, cultural, mental and psychological identity. Together, they form the ethnic and cultural mosaic,which is based on ethnic characteristics, universal moral and cultural values, with their specifi c regional manifestations. It combines the interrelation of unique,
special and general aspects, the dialectics of their transition, which gives the North Caucasus special ethnocultural fl avor.
Ethnic and cultural diversity of the North Caucasus regions is a complex and syncretic entity. It is a cultural symbiosis, which is an objective process in the development of domestic, economic, social connections and relationships
of ethnic groups. In existence of an universal and general parameters, the culture of the North Caucasus is unique and specifi c. These qualities have ethnic cultures as Avar, Dargin, Chechen, Kabardin, Karachay,which represents individual
and peculiar cultural areas. The technique and methodology involves not only overview, but detailed study that reveals the mechanisms of formation of the all Russian cultural interactions.
culture, ethnic culture, ethnic and cultural diversity of the North Caucasus, the existence of culture, ethnic and cultural synthesis, a conservative parameters of culture, the dynamics of culture, the religious foundation of culture

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