Kuzmenko Oksana

Senior Researcher, Candidate of Philology, Secretary of the Folkloristic Commission of NTSh.

Boliuk Oleh

Kandidate of sciences in arts, Doctoral student of Institute of ethnology of NAS of Ukraine.
Scientific interests: history and theory of decorative arts, architecture, design.

Yaroslav Taras

Head of Department, Professor, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Architecture, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of architecture.

Oksana Kis

Senior scientific employee, candidate of historical sciences, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers women’s history www.womenhistory.org.ua

Oksana Sapeliak

Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D. in History.

Olena Nykorak

Senior Researcher, Doctor of Arts.

Olena Fedorchuk

Старший науковий співробітник, кандидат мистецтвознавства

Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D.

Stepan Pavluk

Prof., full member of NAS of Ukraine, H.D., Editor-in-Chief.

Ulana Movna

Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D. in History.

Roman Radovych

Researcher, Ph.D. in History.

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Wax candle as ukrainian Christmas and epiphany ritualistic text
For the first time in native ethnology the article has brought some results of special study in sign functionality of a wax candle under the context of Ukrainian Christmas and Epiphany ritualistic text (ritualism of Christmas Eve, New Year, Epiphany Eve and Feast of Epiphany). The study has stated extremely high semiotic position of a wax candle as projection of Sun, mediator between the spheres of sacral and prophane elements, symbolic analogue of human existence, apotropy, cultural symbol re-establishing borders of acculturated space.
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On bessarabian and moldavian ukrainians in the studies of historical ethnography
The article has thrown some light upon a sum of scientific findings got during XIX to XXI cc. in historio-ethnographic studies of Bessarabia and Moldavian Ukrainians. In the present paper has been given author’s answer to the problem of lacking progress as for the numerous themes concerning Ukrainians. State and achievements of the research-works in Ukrainians’ material and spiritual culture by the scientists of Moldavia and Ukraine through the years of independence has been exposed.
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Daily bread baking of ukrainians in the south-western ethnographical region at the late XIX to early XXI cc.
The paper has dealt with analytic study in prescriptions, signs, customs, methods, ways of selection, procurement and some peculiarities in usage of subsidiary means — water, firewood and leaves in bread baking. The final aim of the mentioned actions had been (and still is) selection of the means and ingredients fit, by their characteristics, for the backing of bread. The paper has demonstrated dependence of bread backing subsidiary means criteria from the folk nutritional standards and world outlook stereotypes as well as from regional social and economic, natural and geographical factors and peculiarities of material culture.
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Traditional folk clothes of velikobychkovsky hutsuly of XIX — the first half of XX century
In the study based upon numerous field materials, literature sources as well as ethnographic, historio-cultural and regional museum collections has been performed complex analysis in traditional folk clothes by Hutzul population of Velyky Bychkiv village in Transcarpathian region. Detailed descriptions of feminine and masculine clothing complexes of the mentioned area have been presented. In characterizing of those main attention has been paid to the detail of cut in separate components of dress; cut of feminine shirt has been added as an illustration.
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