A ROLE OF ORIGINAL ITEMS OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NEO-TRADITIONS IN CONSTRUCTION OF AN ETHNIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
The paper considers an issue of correlation between concepts “a tradition” and “a neo-traditions”; named the key mechanisms of construction of a neo-tradition. The authors analyses problems of building an ethnic and cultural identity of a personality and social groups, describes a role of a neo-tradition in this. The effective ways of revitalization of lost traditions generated by Shors and Teleuts, two of indigenous peoples of Pritome (West Siberia, Russia), are named. Also, the article reviews items of intangible cultural heritage from stocks of various Russian museums.