Abstract
Formation and development of the Talysh ethnic consciousness under the conditions of the Talysh ‘geoethnic reserve’ have been analyzed. Certain ethnoforming elements of the Talysh culture, i.e. factors promoting preservation of the basic constants of the Talysh ethnic consciousness, have been revealed. On the one hand, it is a cult of rocks, stones, groves and trees, and on the other hand it is worship of air, water, land and fire, which with the appearance of Zoroastrianism at first, and later of Shia Muslim, were not absorbed and peripheralized, but filled with new religious and ethical contents presenting moral and esthetic ideals of the Talysh people. The role of a myth and religion as an obligatory early stage of formation of the Talysh ethnic culture has been determined; regularities of formation of the Talysh ethnic consciousness have been shown; steps of ethnogenesis and a world view of the Talysh ethnos have been enlightened. Introduction of strange cultural tradition components could not eliminate the existing valuable attitude of ‘the geoethnic reserve’, but right opposite, they created syncretic environment stimulating evolution of the Talysh ethnic consciousness towards world judgment in the system of moral and ethical images considerably enriching the Talysh ethnos outlook. Having been formed this syncretic environment effected significantly the Talysh ethnos social attitude, as well as, predetermined a prevalent character of religious values in Talyshes spiritual and socio-political life.
Highlights
From our point of view the main task of the philosophical-anthropological and philosophical-cultural study of formation and development of the Talysh ethnos worldview consists in identification of those worldview components which explain historical and cultural processes of formation and development but could predict the Talysh ethnos evolution. This task assumes the solution of two problems: 1) Identification of the Talysh culture ethnoforming elements, that is the basic structures that are responsible for preserving and transmitting the ethnos spiritual experience; 2) Examination of factors that have a transformative effect on the Talysh ethnic consciousness progress throughout historical development of the ethnos
A large amount of work on studying the Talysh ethnic consciousness was done within the framework of the Caucasian Department of the Russian Imperial Geographic Society
Each member of the ethnic group absorbs, perceives those semantic settings of his ethnos culture which play an important role in the formation of an individual worldview;
Summary
From our point of view the main task of the philosophical-anthropological and philosophical-cultural study of formation and development of the Talysh ethnos worldview consists in identification of those worldview components which explain historical and cultural processes of formation and development but could predict the Talysh ethnos evolution.This task assumes the solution of two problems: 1) Identification of the Talysh culture ethnoforming elements, that is the basic structures that are responsible for preserving and transmitting the ethnos spiritual experience; 2) Examination of factors that have a transformative effect on the Talysh ethnic consciousness progress throughout historical development of the ethnos.Several periods can be found in the history of the Talysh. It should be noted that referring to historical, cultural heritage experts in Asian and Islamic studies (Marr N.Ya., Kistenev D.A., Lekgobytov B.L., Hodzko A.L.) try to distinguish various aspects of artistic and folk-epic character, partially reflecting the Talysh ethnos worldview In this sense, the works are certainly important from philosophical point of view, in the context of history of religion, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of culture, but such a one-sided approach in covering the problems of ethnic consciousness is very superficial and completely unsuitable for the purposes of the given study. We will often refer to Zoroastrian and other sources enlightening the ethnic history of the Talysh people, its worldview and value orientations in different historical time periods
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