Symbolic Codes as Cultural Identity Frames
Symbolic Codes as Cultural Identity Frames

Summary/Abstract: The contours of cultural identity can take various forms, but mainly through the persistence of symbolic codes, of patterns constantly present in the various manifestations of cultural identity. When expressing key aspects of an identity mark, cultural codes appear in different contexts and on different material supports but can always be recognized as such. To express the essence of cultural identity, a symbolic code must fulfill several prerequisites, such as the possibility of reproducing it easily and in a recognizable way, its simplicity, its ability to express something essential synthetically, its imposition in different historical periods, its impact on the collective consciousness. A symbolic code is expressed on material support, and it is obvious that a certain cultural tradition prefers certain material supports in the establishment of symbolic codes, which says a lot about the particularities of that cultural horizon.

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