MENTALITIES - A WAY TO UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL
IDENTITIES FROM THE SYNCHRONIC PERSPECTIVE Cover Image

MENTALITĂȚILE – O CALE SPRE ÎNȚELEGEREA IDENTITĂȚILOR CULTURALE DIN PERSPECTIVA SINCRONISMULUI
MENTALITIES - A WAY TO UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL IDENTITIES FROM THE SYNCHRONIC PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Anca-Margareta Bunea
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Conspress
Keywords: culture and civilization; mentalities and cultural identities; humanity;

Summary/Abstract: Anthropologically speaking, culture, by and large, marks the opposition culture vs.nature giving specificity to the human being way of existence. Cultural facts – knowledge,techniques, institutions, ways of behaviour, visions upon universe – sign of the culture’s unity have an “acquired” character, they are created by the human kind and independent from the biological laws, they are not known outside the human being. They represent a new environment, different from the natural one. This new environment (equally material and spiritual) interposes between man and nature and among people within a collectivity; it moulds the relationship of the human being with the self and it is the result of the synchronicity of the relationship of the human being with the society.

  • Issue Year: X/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 37-44
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian