Etnosimbolinė kultūra

Abstract

An ethnosimbolical culture as one of the social units functions and expresses itself in various ways. Their researches reveal some of the features charactising nation's social organization. Relationships forming between people and groups, their interests, orean tations of values, norms and ways of their behavior an interaction, spontanious intercontrol, help and etc. express theirselves in the layer of the ethnical culture. The whole of ethnocultural relationships has one conecting rudiment - a simbol. Simbols were used as binder of the idea and action, the meaning and purpose in traditional folk customs, rituals and rites. The article disscuses the expression of the simbolism of folk textiles. Materials and clothes had a lot of simbolical meanings: sacrifices, gifts, the wide spec trum of interrelationships (friendship, love, wishes, respect, gratitude, affection, the conclusion of an agreement and etc.), ethnical or estate dependency, stratification acording the age, relatives of a woman and man, social and family status. All that formed the basis of the archetypical (tribal, ethnical) con sciousness and subconsciousness also maintained the order and stability of social organization in an agrarian society. In the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries when industry made changes in the traditional social organisation, simbolical meanings and application of the textiles were chang ing at the same time. In the end of the 20th century this phenomenon modificated itself, but didn't dis apear, as the language of simbols also serve their communicative purpose in an industrial society too