TRADITIONAL CULTURE AND REPRODUCTION OF ITS ATTRIBUTIVE FEATURES IN FOLKLORE

DOI: 10.36871/hon.202204152

Authors

A. V. Kostina
Moscow University for the Humanities, Moscow, 111395, Russia

Abstract

Traditional culture is historically the most conservative, since at the early stage of development the mastering of the world was extremely slow. New achievements needed not to be denied through successive innovations, but to be consolidated and passed on to subsequent generations. The limit of permissible innovations became the subject of constant attention of the community, as their excessive implementation could undermine both the social system and the system of existing knowledge. The type of culture reproduced by tradition was more generic than individual, and the cultural development itself was oriented here to the reproduction of the best social, economic, legal and artistic models approved by experience and time. The desire to keep these forms unchanged led to the formation of novelty at an extremely slow pace, which was perceived as immutability. The functional task of traditional culture is, first of all, to preserve and reproduce the past experience. All these features are inherent in folklore as an artistic component of traditional culture.

Keywords

traditional culture, folklore, collective authorship, variability, formularity, normativity