The popular heritage and the national identity A study in the nature of popular traditions

Abstract

This study seeks to touch and highlight the role of the popular heritage in strengthening the national and national identity and in preserving the nation's entity, in both its material and immaterial parts, because it is its spiritual and cultural stock and the intellectual and civilizational record enshrined in its popular traditions, based on a process of extrapolation of the group of material and immaterial popular and folklore traditions of crafts, traditional arts and clothing. Traditional to the revolutionary folk song, proverbs and wisdom, biographies, epics and folk tales...

Highlighting the role of these popular expressive forms of great influence in preserving the nation’s foundations, preserving its civilizational and cultural history, and strengthening its identity and entity, because it embodies the living aspect of the cultural heritage of the group and society, and a moral and necessary motive for it. her rise.