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The article deals with the practice of gift-giving and sharing in modern hunter-gatherer societies, namely among the Evenkis and some other people speaking Tungus languages. This study is based on the field researches conducted in 1988–1991, 1999–2002, 2005–2008 in different regions of Siberia. Being originally taiga hunters and reindeer herders, the Evenkis practiced a custom called nimat. Sharing of a large animals hunter has killed with his neighbours and strangers is at the core of this practice based on the p...

Events of recent years (an economic crisis, local confrontations in Syria, Ukraine, other regions of the world) have consolidated the interdisciplinary status of a problem of migration; they have also put this problem on the highest level of discussion, allowing to consider migratory processes as menacing to the safety and state sovereignty [1], [2], or, on the contrary, promoting economic well-being of a host country [3]. Efforts of psychologists to study migratory processes are directed at the analysis of charac...

In the modern world of extensive information exchanges, the media space has become an important component in the functioning of modern society. The author of this article applies a complex of philosophical, general scientific and special research methods and ensures the unity of socio-cultural, philosophical and axiological analysis of the media space. There are different approaches to defining the concept of media space, in particular, sociological, psychological, journalistic, socio-cultural, etc. The author arg...