Folklore Klironomy

Folklore Klironomy is an independent science within the Intangible Klironomy direction in the system of the klironomical sciences. It belongs to the group of sciences that study and preserve intangible forms of cultural heritage connected with collective creativity, oral tradition, folk music, ritual performance, dance, drama, and other traditional forms of cultural expression.

1. Cultural anthropology is the science of culture as a system of tangible and intangible objects, ideas, values, behaviours, symbolic forms, and social practices in all forms of their manifestation at different historical stages of social development.
2. Ethnology is the science that studies ethnic processes, ethnic communities, peoples, their cultural characteristics, traditional forms of life, and the relationships between different communities.
3. Philology is a complex of sciences that studies language, oral and written texts, literary works, and cultural meanings expressed through linguistic and narrative forms.
4. Musicology is the scholarly study of music, including its historical, theoretical, cultural, social, psychological, acoustic, and performative aspects.

Historically, folklore is one of the earliest forms of collective artistic and aesthetic creativity. Verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic folk art are integral parts of the spiritual history and culture of society. They preserve collective images, plots, melodies, rhythms, gestures, rituals, performance models, ethical norms, and symbolic structures formed by different communities over long periods of time.

Folklore carries historical, cultural, artistic, musical, performative, and philological information codes of previous social epochs. It reflects the worldview of communities, their ideas about nature, society, family, work, ritual order, heroism, beauty, suffering, celebration, and memory. Therefore, the preservation of folklore is an important part of reconstructing a unified picture of society’s existence both at a particular historical moment and in the process of temporal change.

The preservation, recovery, reconstruction, renovation, and revitalisation of folklore as intangible cultural heritage require specific scientific methods, expert approaches, documentation practices, and trained specialists. Folklore Klironomy is relevant because it provides a theoretical and methodological basis for identifying, classifying, preserving, and transmitting folklore as a living and historically significant component of cultural heritage.

Verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic folklore that carries valuable historical, cultural, artistic, and spiritual codes of society in intangible forms.

The preservation, recovery, reconstruction, documentation, interpretation, and transmission of folklore as an element of intangible cultural heritage.

The preservation of verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic folklore as elements of society’s cultural heritage and as carriers of collective memory, artistic creativity, and spiritual identity.

1. To analyse the state of individual elements of verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic folklore in order to determine their relevance for inclusion in inventories of intangible cultural heritage and to classify them.
2. To describe the state of individual elements of folklore defined as part of intangible cultural heritage, including their relevance, level of preservation, degree of transformation, and required scope of recovery or reconstruction work.
3. To develop methods for the preservation, recovery, reconstruction, renovation, and revitalisation of verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic folklore as elements of intangible cultural heritage.
4. To create a scientific basis for research, educational, expert, and cultural activities related to the identification, documentation, preservation, and transmission of folklore.
5. To support the continuity of folklore traditions as an important component of society’s spiritual image, cultural identity, and historical memory.

1. Preservation of existing forms of folklore defined as elements of intangible cultural heritage.
2. Preservation of verbal, musical, choreographic, and dramatic forms of folklore that may be recognised as elements of intangible cultural heritage in the future.
3. Documentation of folklore texts, melodies, rhythms, performances, rituals, gestures, plots, motifs, and traditional forms of transmission.
4. Recovery of damaged, fragmented, transformed, or partially lost elements of folklore defined as part of intangible cultural heritage.
5. Reconstruction of lost parts of folklore elements on the basis of historical, ethnological, philological, musicological, and cultural evidence.
6. Systematisation and classification of folklore heritage according to its historical, cultural, ethnic, artistic, musical, performative, and spiritual significance.
7. Revitalisation of folklore traditions in cases where their living transmission has weakened, interrupted, or become endangered.
8. Creation of scientific, methodological, educational, and expert foundations for the long-term preservation and transmission of folklore within the system of intangible cultural heritage.