ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF THE KURDISH CULTURE

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the article is determining the features of the traditional human culture of the Kurdish area; study of mythological and religious worldviews, aesthetic and marriage traditions, behavioral and socio-cultural aspects of the formation of the existence of the Kurdish man in comparison with the Arab- Muslim culture. Methodological principles of the research were emic and ethical approaches, philosophical and anthropological, historical and cultural approaches, philosophical reflection. Scientific novelty. For the first time in the Ukrainian philosophical discourse, with the help of socio-philosophical tools and approaches of philosophical anthropology, was carried out a study of human culture in the Kurdish area. Conclusions. From the above material, it was suggested that the study was an attempt to look into the micro world of Kurdish culture. It was an attempt to touch the spiritual and cultural tradition with their original system of values, worldviews, concepts and understandings. It was an attempt to identify and compare the features of Kurdish with Arab-Muslim socio-cultural life. We also came to the conclusion that the issue of preserving Kurdish culture, which is on the verge of extinction, is being leveled by the world community. Kurds, who exist in different states, began to preserve the cultural characteristics of the local population rather than their own originality. Many countries have legislation aimed at the national-cultural and socio-economic development of national minorities. Despite the 40 million population of this minority, there is a lack of a single center, a single unifying force, common views on the development of their own state, a religious consolidating component. Today, we can say that the possibility of the existence of an independent state of Kurdistan is in great doubt. because the starting point for the beginning of the transition from ethnicity to nation is self-awareness of the ability to ensure their own cultural and social, political and economic rights.