Traditional Klironomy

Traditional 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, preserve, recover, reconstruct, and revitalise intangible forms of cultural heritage connected with inherited patterns of behaviour, ritual practices, collective norms, social memory, and customary 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.

Tradition is a system of beliefs, values, and behaviours passed down within a group or society and endowed with symbolic meaning or special significance rooted in the past. A custom is an inherited and socially recognised pattern of behaviour that is reproduced within a community and accepted by its members as familiar and meaningful.

Traditions and customs are integral parts of society’s spiritual history and culture. They preserve historical, cultural, social, symbolic, and philological information codes of previous social epochs. Through them, communities transmit collective experience, ritual order, moral norms, social roles, festive practices, everyday models of behaviour, and accepted forms of interaction.

The preservation of traditions and customs is therefore 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 such elements of intangible cultural heritage require specific scientific methods, expert approaches, documentation practices, and trained specialists.

Traditions and customs that carry valuable historical, cultural, social, and spiritual codes of society in intangible forms.

The preservation, recovery, reconstruction, documentation, interpretation, and transmission of traditions and customs as elements of intangible cultural heritage.

The preservation of traditions and customs as elements of society’s cultural heritage and as carriers of collective memory, social continuity, and spiritual identity.

1. To analyse the state of individual traditions and customs 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 traditions and customs 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 traditions and customs 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 traditions and customs.
5. To support the continuity of traditions and customs as important components of society’s spiritual image, cultural identity, and historical memory.

1. Preservation of existing traditions and customs defined as elements of intangible cultural heritage.
2. Preservation of those traditions and customs that may be recognised as elements of the intangible cultural heritage of society in the future.
3. Documentation of traditions, customs, ritual practices, social norms, behavioural patterns, and forms of customary transmission.
4. Recovery of damaged, weakened, transformed, or partially lost elements of traditions and customs defined as part of intangible cultural heritage.
5. Reconstruction of lost parts of traditions and customs on the basis of historical, ethnological, philological, and cultural evidence.
6. Systematisation and classification of traditions and customs according to their historical, cultural, social, ritual, and spiritual significance.
7. Revitalisation of traditions and customs in cases where their living transmission has weakened, been interrupted, or become endangered.
8. Creation of scientific, methodological, educational, and expert foundations for the long-term preservation and transmission of traditions and customs within the system of intangible cultural heritage.