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Hypotheses:

THE THEORY OF CULTURE

E.A. Orlova. The anthropological foundations of scientific knowledge

 

Discussions:

IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF HISTORY AND CULTURE (A.Ya. Flier's section)

A.V. Kostin, A.Ya. Flier. Ternary functional model of culture (continued)

N.A. Khrenov. Russian culture at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries: the Gnostic "Renaissance" in the context of symbolism (continued)

V.M. Rozin. Some features of modern art

V.I. Ionesov. Memory of things in images and plots of cultural introspection

 

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CULTURAL REFLECTIONS

A.Ya. Flier. Social and organizational functions of culture

M.I. Kozyakova. The Ancient cosmos and its evolution: ritual, spectacle, entertainment

N.A. Malshina. The post-non-classical paradigm in the study of the Russian cultural industry: A new type of rationality and value system

N.A. Khrenov. A Century later: the tragic experience of Soviet Culture (continued)


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Flier Andrey Yakovlevich,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Chief Researcher
Likhachev Russian Research Institute
for Culturaland Natural Heritage,
Professor at Moscow StateLinguistic University.
e-mail: andrey.flier@yandex.ru

Myth and the problem of cultural interpretation

Abstract. The article examines the phenomenon of contextual dependence of culture, and different social types of culture are dependent in their interpretation on different contexts. The author believes that one of the universal contexts determining the interpretation of cultural artifacts is mythology. At the same time, for everyday folk culture, such a context is ethnographic mythology, for elite specialized culture – the mythology of power – ideology, for mass culture – the mythology of social prestige – fashion.

Keywords. Types and artifacts of culture, social context, interpretation, mythology, folk, elite and mass culture, ethnographic mythology, ideology, fashion.
 

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