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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 5 (137), 1235—1243

UDK 392.51:784.692.5(477.43/.44)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.05.1235

WEDDING REHEARSALS («VIVATY») OF WEST PODILLYA (on materials from the village of Novostavtsi Buchatskyi and the village of Sorotske, Terebovlianskyi district of the Ternopil region)

Konopka Volodymyr Mykhajlovych, Ph.D in History,

junior research fellow at the Department of Historical Ethnology

of the Institute of Ethnology

of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue, 15, Lviv, 79000,Ukraine.

Contacts: Tel. (032) 2970157; e-mail: ina@mail.lviv.ua

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0872-1833

Abstract. Short wedding songs, which were performed during the feast and gossiping in the West Podillya, in particular, in the villages of Novozavtsy Buchatsky and Sorotsk Terebovliansky district, Ternopil region are published.

Keywords: Western Podillya, wedding songs, repossessions, vivaty.

Received 18.07.2017

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