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Flier Andrey Yakovlevich 
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Chief Research Worker 
Lykhachev Russian Research Institute 
for Cultural and Natural Heritage
e-mail: andrey.flier@yandex.ru
 

Culture as a Symbolic Activity: The Stage of Formation

Abstract: The article outlines the author's concept of the origins of symbolic activity in culture and discusses the main social functions of symbolic culture as a universal means of human psychological belonging to the universe – nature, cosmos, and God.

Keywords: culture, symbolic activity, mythology, religion, art, figurative system.

[1] See: Flier A.Y. Cultural Environment: An Experience of Analytical Structuring [Electronic resource] // Culture of Culture. 2014. №1. URL: http://cult-cult.ru/kulitura-kak-sreda-opyt-analiticheskogo-strukturirovaniya/. Access date: 14/05/2014; See also: Flier A.Y. Essays on the Theory of Historical Dynamics of Culture // Flier A.Y. Selected Works on Theory of Culture. M.: Soglasie-Artem, 2014.
[2] Cassirer, Ernst. Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, Bd 1-3, Вerlin, 1923-1929.
[3] Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. Selected Essays. N.Y.: Basic Books, 1973.
[4] See also: Pelipenko A.A. Mythoritual System of Culture [Electronic resource] // Culture of Culture. 2014. №3. URL: http://cult-cult.ru/miforitualinaya-sistema-kulitury/. Access date: 01/07/2014.
[5] Engels, Friedrich. Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen // Neu Zeit. 1894. Jahrgang XIV. Bd. 2, 1894.
[6] Tylor, Edward Burnett. Primitive Culture. London: John Murray, 1871.
[7] Tokarev S.A. Religion in History of Nations of the World. M.: Politizdat, 1986.
[8] A similar view was expressed by famous American futurist Raymond Kurzweil (See: Kurzweil, Raymond. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. N.Y.: Viking Penguin, 2005; See also: Young, Simon. Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto. N.Y.: Prometheus Book, 2005).
[9] For systematic studies of this ritual see: Smirnov Y.A. Maze. Morphology of Intentional Burial. M.: Science, Eastern Literature, 1997; See also: Flier A.Y. Culture of Parting (Hard Fate of the Deceased) // Flier A.Y. Selected Works on Theory of Culture. M.: Soglasie-Artem, 2014.
[10] Okladnikov A.P. The Morning of Art. Leningrad: Art, 1967.
[11] See: Frankfort, Henri, Frankfort, Henrichte A., Wilson, John A., Jacobsen, Thorkild. Before Philosophy. The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1946.
[12] See: Eliade, Mirchea. Le Mythe de l’éternel retour: Arhétypes et répétitio. Paris: Gallimard, 1949.
[13] For more details see: Goryainova O.I. Myth and Cultural Scenario as Mechanisms of Socialization [Electronic resource] // URL: http://lib2.znate.ru/docs/index-300086.html. Access date: 15.02.2013.
[14] In the "Axial Age". See: Jaspers, Karl. The Origin and Goal of History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953.
[15] See also: Coppens, Yves. Origines de l’homme. De la matière à la conscience. Paris: De Vive Voix, 2010.
[16] See: Stolyar A.D. The Origin of Art. M.: Art, 1985.
[17] Sher Y.A., Vishnyatsky L.B., Blednova N.S. The Origin of the Sign Behavior. M.: Scientific World, 2004.
[18] Malinowski, Bronisław Kasper. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. With a Preface by Havelock Ellis. London: George Routledge, 1929.
[19] Stolyar A.D. Ibidem.
[20] See: Semenov V.A. Prehistoric Art. Stone Age. Bronze Age. St. Petersburg.: Azbuka-Klassika, 2008.
[21] Frolov B.A. Primitive Graphics in Europe. M.: Science, 1992.
[22] Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
[23] See: Formozov A.A. Monuments of Prehistoric Art in the USSR. M.: Science, 1966; Pelipenko A.A. Culture and Meaning // Pelipenko A.A. Selected Works on Theory of Culture. Moscow: Soglasie-Artem, 2014.
[24] See: Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu. Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. Wien: Hugo Heller, 1913.
[25] See, e.g.: Berezkin Y.E. Areal Distribution of Folklore and Mythological Motifs // History and Mathematics: Analysis and Modeling of Social and Historical Processes. M. KomKniga; URSS, 2007.
[26] See: Durkheim, Emile. Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1912; Tokarev S.A. Rituals and Myths // Myths of Nations of the World. Encyclopedia: In 2 vols, M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1988. V. 2; Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 & ors.
[27] See: Orlova E.A. The Theoretical Basis of Social Interaction Studies // Observatory of Culture. 2008. № 1. P. 4-13; Flier A.Y. Social Experience as the Basis of Functioning and Historic Reproduction of Communities // Social Sciences and Nowadays. 2002. № 1; Flier A.Y. Cultural Milieu and Its Social Features [Electronic resource] // Humanitarian Information Portal "Knowledge. Understanding. Skill". 2013. № 2 (March - April). URL: http://www.zpu-journal.ru/e-zpu/2013/2/Flier_Cultural-Milieu/. Date of application: 02/12/2014.

 

 

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