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

PHENOMENON OF CULTURAL FORM

Abstract. The article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of cultural form as the main image of culture observed by us in its functional essence, utilitarian and symbolic representations, statics of stability and dynamics of variability. Special attention is paid to the cultural artifact as a special case of interpretation of the cultural form.

Keyword. Culture, cultural form, cultural traits, cultural artifact, stability, variability

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