SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ETHNIC SETTLEMENTS OF THE KHABAROVSK REGION AFTER THE 2013 FLOODING: ON THE PROBLEM OF STUDYING ADAPTATION AND MODERNIZATION IN ETHNIC MINORITIES
In this paper I investigate the re-organizations carried out and reforms introduced in ethnic settlements of the Khabarovsk Region after the 2013 inundation, and their social-cultural consequences. The situation under consideration is exemplified by the village of Belgo in the Komsomolsk District; I focus my analysis on the results of a field research conducted in June-July, 2015. I describe changes in the ‘material’ (the economy, life- sustenance subsystem) and ‘spiritual’ (the socio-normative and humanistic subsystems) spheres of life in an ethnic settlement today; the key problems and potential ways of their solution are revealed and identified.