title: Traditionalism in the Oriental Dimension
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metadata.value: Bocharov, Viktor V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-08-09T21:28:22Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T21:28:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Bocharov V. V. Traditionalism in the Oriental Dimension. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 4–21. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.101 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43673
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes the concept of “traditionalism”, identified by St. Petersburg scientists as a
  subject of oriental studies. The need to clarify the status of the discipline arose in connection with
  its reorientation in the early 2000s to the study of the modern East. If earlier sources for orientalists were written monuments on history, philosophy, law, etc., exported by pioneers and stored
  in the funds of Europe (London, Paris, Berlin, etc.), as well as St. Petersburg, now the object of
  research is the living cultures of the East. Ethnography and socio-cultural anthropology (ethnology)
  are also involved in their study. These are related disciplines, however, if the former is more
  related to, description of the peoples exploring the specific manifestations of ethno-cultural phenomena:
  customs, rituals, beliefs, symbols, etc., then anthropology with comparative ethnology,
  the formulation of theoretical and methodological approaches for their study. “Tradition”, from
  the point of view of the author, since Antiquity has been closely correlated with politics and the
  aspirations of the elites. In the era of the Enlightenment, this concept acquired an ambivalent
  content: progressives treated it negatively, considering it an obstacle to the historical development
  of society, their opponents, on the contrary, believed that it was tradition that ensures the
  uniqueness of society in the process of its evolution. A similar attitude to tradition is retained in
  scientific discourse today, it is devoid of scientific content, but is an axiological category. The attitude
  to tradition is almost the main “bone of contention” in the modern confrontation between
  East and West. The author proposes an understanding of traditionalism that excludes the absolutization
  of both universalism (progressivism) and uniqueness in the understanding of tradition,
  which, from his point of view, corresponds to the principle of scientific character.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by КН РА (20RF-189) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  within the international scientific project.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oriental studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociocultural anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditionalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methodology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the East
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Traditionalism in the Oriental Dimension
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metadata.value: Article
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