Theoretical Klironomy is a special scientific direction of klironomy of cultural heritage. In contrast to Tactile and Facile Klironomy, which combine the applied sciences of Klironomy, i.e., the body of knowledge in which research and discovery have immediate, direct orientation to the practice and support the development of new technologies – the algorithms of steps to obtain the desired product, the Theoretical Klironomy analyzes questions of the basis of all science – history, methodology, systematics and statistics in the field of preservation of the objects, items and elements of cultural heritage – tangible and intangible.
Dr Alexander Buychik
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Beograd, Serbia
Theoretical Klironomy
A scientific direction of Klironomy focused on the theoretical foundations of cultural heritage preservation.
Theoretical Klironomy is one of three fields of the science of cultural heritage preservation.
The development of a theoretical basis of cultural heritage preservation includes a large set of foundations that should be widely used in the applied fields of the science directions – Tangible Klironomy and Intangible Klironomy. The analysis of the history of actions for preservation of the social life heritage is one of the most important fields of Theoretical Klironomy because it gives the possibility to create a clear and verified chronology of the human mind evolution in the area of the importance and grandeur of cultural heritage.
Taxonomy of the sciences and scientific directions of Klironomy allows to structure the professional activities of specialists in the field of cultural heritage preservation, as well as separate profiles of specialization and substantiate the pedagogical basis for the preparation of these specialists. The methodology theoretical and practical studies sums up the basis of the philosophical criteria to select each klironomical science, and the base to create academic disciplines from the point of pedagogical view.
The statistics should become the basis for the analytical activities in the field of cultural heritage preservation in all research directions and separate klironomical sciences. The collection of artifacts, the geography of the location and findings, the different levels of their condition, belonging to certain ethnic and social groups, methods, and techniques of conservation, restoration, renovation and revitalization are subjects to statistics, on the basis of which further systematics of various types does. Therefore, the Theoretical Klironomy is a separate and important direction of Klironomy as the science of cultural heritage preservation.
Objects and elements of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
History, philosophy, geography, law, methodology, statistics and systematics of tangible and intangible and cultural heritage preservation.
Development of theoretical bases of klironomy as a science about preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
- Perform historical, geographical and juristic analysis of human and society activity in the field of cultural heritage preservation.
- Develop a methodology for the formation of the scientific directions of Tactile and Facile Klironomy.
- Perform statistical research in the field of the Tangible Klironomy and Intangible Klironomical directions, i.e., objects, items and elements of cultural heritage, as well as methods and techniques of their conservation, restoration, renovation and revitalization.
- Systematise the received statistical data in the field of cultural heritage preservation.
- Preservation of all types of cultural heritage.
- Systematics of archaeological artifacts of cultural heritage, methods, and techniques of their conservation, restoration, renovation and revitalization.
- Historiography of research in the field of cultural heritage preservation.
- Historical method is a method of sociological research, which includes techniques and tools that are used to study and interpret the texts of primary sources and search for other evidence including archaeological evidence used for research, as well as the presentation of historical events and as a method of theory of knowledge.
- The analytical method makes possiblity to analyze the main stages of the development of human thought regarding the evaluation of cultural heritage for the purpose of a competent approach to its preservation or recovery.
- Synthesis allows to connect in a single whole the achievements of human thought isolated from various sciences for the purpose to use them in preservation of cultural heritage elements.
- Comparative analysis serves as a basis to determine the main directions of cultural heritage preservation – restoration, conservation, renovation, and revitalization – and to separate them in the process of choosing of one of the directions.
- System analysis allows to differentiate the research of directions and their particular sciences, as well as to identify the path of sequence and interaction of klironomical sciences.