At the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI century, Russian and world ethnography and ethnology saw a shift in research interests related to the leveling of traditional culture. The time when it really united ethnic communities and competed with the practices of a unified urban environment has passed. Today, ethnic traditions belong to family groups; they are represented by variable private practices. The study of traditional cultures raises a lot of questions about the validity of field methods and the representativeness of data obtained in local communities that, by inertia, call themselves one ethnonym. The included observation reveals, first of all, economic and geographical specifics and universal social problems. The authentic," classical " ethnographic field becomes difficult to reach. Specialists are increasingly turning to the so-called creative ethnicity, since the ethno-cultural realities of our time are most fully and expressively manifested in the field of art and creative practices. In the modern world, according to experts, ethnicity (ethnic identity, ethnicity) appears not as a fixed phenomenon, but as a result of personal redefinition and social creativity of individuals themselves. One of the variants of the research field for an ethnographer is ethnic festivals. In Russia, the festival movement developed in the 1980s and reached a new level in the 1990s. In August 2006, the first International Ethnofuturistic Festival "Kamva"was held in the newly formed Perm Region. Kamva is a generalized image of the great river Kama; this name is an innovation formed on the basis of the Finno-Ugric hydronym " va "("water","river"). In 2007, the festival was held for the second time. Since then, Kamva has acquired the status of a permanent International ethno-futurist Festival. The ethno-futuristic festival in the cities of Perm and Kudymkar, on the ancient Komi-Permian land, did not arise by chance. The term "ethno-futurism", which denoted the strategy of popul ... Read more