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Abstract: The article deals with urgent problems of the modern humanities in the context of modernization of pedagogical education. Cultural anthropology is viewed upon as a multi-disciplinary integrator in the process of teaching the humanities. This discipline can be used in training students of humanitarian specialties and educational fields. The author specifies the fundamental principles developed by the classical humanities – cultural relativism and anthropocentricism – as the key advantages of cultural anthropology. The article singles out groups of internal and methodological factors which objectively allow cultural anthropology to be a multi-disciplinary integrator of humanitarian education in the process of teaching the humanities in the system of higher professional education. The first group of factors is based on the internal logic of evolution of the humanitarian knowledge and the development of cultural anthropology proper. The second group of factors is based on specific methodology of cultural anthropology termed “valency” – ability to be included in the existing areas of scientific knowledge and use new research strategies in the process of interpretation of culture creating activity of man. The author proposes methods and a universal conceptual model of organizing the cultural and anthropological research that can be used in teaching the humanities to students of humanitarian specialties and educational fields. The presented model describes cultural phenomenon as a representation of cultural creative subjectivity of man. Cultural-creative subjectivity is defined as the person's ability to be a source of cognitive and transformative activity.