Possibilities of Methodical Intuitive and Linguistic Approaches in Sub-Saharan Cultural Studies Cover Image

Intuityvistinių Ir Lingvistinių Metodologinių Prieigų Galimybės Subsacharinių Kultūrų Tyrimuose
Possibilities of Methodical Intuitive and Linguistic Approaches in Sub-Saharan Cultural Studies

Author(s): Gediminas Degėsys
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Social Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: sub-Saharan Africa; cultural traditions; intuitivism; linguistic methodology; philosophy; myth;

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author considers a question in all its aspects about intuitional and linguistic approaches studying the originality of mythology, thinking, aesthetics and art forms of subsaharan cultures. Using the analysis of concrete regularities in cognitive process the author reveals that aforesaid methodological approches help to perceive the subsaharan mythology, religions and art better as harmonious philosophic whole and reveals new possibilities for qualitatively new comparative studies. In the text the language opens as a very important revealing-explicative reflection of intellectual experience of subsaharan nations. Its traces we can see in mythic consciousness, thinking and artistic creation.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 198-208
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Lithuanian
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