Руската традициология в историографската ѝ ретроспектива и перспектива
The Russian science of tradition in its historiographical retro-and perspective

Summary/Abstract: The author is motivated by ethnologists’ intensified search for a new content of the classical concepts in science which have to reflect the processes of the postmodern age and give answer to the need for an adequate theory and methodology of the scientific research. The paper is focused on the possible new readings of “tradition”, “traditional society”, “historical ethnology” and related processes and terminology in historiographical perspective. A subject of presentation is the relationship between tradition and ethnic culture in the context of the Soviet-Russian theory of ethnos. The author reviews the ideas of this relationship developed by three leading scholars – theoreticians – S. Shirokogorov, L. Lumiliov and U. Bromley. Each one of them interprets the ethnic cultural tradition in own framework of understanding the ethnos. The purely ethnological perceptions are broadly framed by the scientific research carried out in the modern Russian social sciences (including psychologists, researchers of culture, sociologists, philosophers, along with ethnologists) seeking to define the structure of tradition and its role in making possible the survival of the ethnically organized communities.

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