2000 Volume 2 The Issue of Attitudes towards Nature in Folk Traditions Entry date: 2009-11-11 Author(s): George Chinchaladze |
Religion, moral criteria form the absolute axiological (value) basis of culture, which gives the form of social law (norms) to the obligations and good will. It is namely participation in God's heavenly realm or "wellbeing" which motivates the orientation of seasonal labor habits and holidays on the church calendar and the order of sacrifice, which was considered by the people as a universal obligation similar to lighting a candle in the cathedral. |
2000 Volume 2 Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): Paata Bukhrashvili |
Ethnogenesis, the origin and formation of ethnic entities, is constituted as the object of multidisplinary study (by the disciplines of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, etc.), since an ethnos is by its nature a multi-faceted object, and cannot be adequately studied by the methods of a single social science. Multidisciplinary research is accompanied by a number of difficulties, of course, which must be overcome before undertaking the analysis of a specific region at a specific time. |
2000 Volume 2 The rhythmical structure of Georgian charms Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): Mzia Suladze |
Studies of complex rhythmical-melodical structures show, that they are based on the principal of parallelism. This poetic model is widely spread all over the world, beginning with the Jewish poetry and church music antiphons and ending with refined Greek, Italian and English poems. Parallelism is the principal mean of the poetic technique in the Chinese poetry too. We meet the same architectonic model in the Egyptian manuscripts and in the oral practice (literature/ of different people. |
2000 Volume 2 Historical Aspects of Georgian-Ukrainian Relations Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): David Sandodze |
The existence of allied countries and relations with them play a big part in the state strength of Georgia. Communication with these countries also affects their economical and cultural development.
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