Dinamism și stabilitate în receptarea structurilor simbolice
Dynamism and Stability in the Reception of Symbolic Structures

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to (re)discuss the tradition-innovation-invention relationship regarded from the perspective of an open character of traditional culture. This type of openness does not only imply forgetting about the meanings of certain gestures, expressions, imagines, as it has been constantly acknowledged nowadays, but it also suggests continuity in terms of significance and functionality. We will further refer to structures of roles as symbolic works which are capable to reveal their original purposes beyond time and space, clearly entailing the ability to adapt meanings to new contexts. Functions of symbols are crucial. The practical part considers discussing the manner in which the wake service as a symbolic act has preserved its ancient purposes while adding elements of innovation/ invention.

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