Popravko O. Constructive Potential of the Holiday as a Symbolic Form of Culture

The object - a holiday as а phenomenon of cultural human веing, the purpose - to reveal the constructive potential of the holiday as a symbolic form of culture with accountmen of its modern transformations, methods - systematic, integrated and interdisciplinary approaches, the interpretation of culture as a set of symbolic forms, semantic, structural, functional, genetic, historical and comparative historical analysis, hermeneutic, cultural and anthropological interpretation of anthropological reduction; novelty - performed cultural anthropological conceptualization of the holiday as a symbolic form of culture with the use of the author's methodology; results - the extending of the problem field of holiday as a symbolic form of culture, improved theoretical and methodological arsenal of its analysis, deepened understanding of the constructive potential of the holiday and its contemporary specificity