The Ethnology Notebooks. 2026. № 1 (187), 165—177
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The date the article was first submitted to the publication 2.01.2026
The date the article was accepted for publication after review 24.01.2026
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TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CONSTRUCTING WALLS OF DWELLINGS ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE MIDDLE DNIPRO REGION(Part 2. Clay-made house)
RADOVYCH Roman
- ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1900-8948
- Doctor of Sciences in History, Senior Researcher
- of the Institute of Ethnology
- of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
- in the Department of Historical Ethnology,
- 15,Svobody Avenue,79000,Lviv, Ukraine,
- Contacts: e-mail: radovychroman@gmail.com
Abstract. Although traditional housing in the Middle Dnipro region has repeatedly served as the subject of scholarly research, a number of issues related to the techniques and technologies of construction have remained outside their focus. This very fact defines the relevance of our study.
In this work, the author sets out to clarify the characteristics of the techniques and technologies of traditional residential construction (especially clay-made house) in the right-bank part of the Middle Dnipro region. The object of the study is vernacular housing, and the subject is the technique and technology of wall construction. The methodological basis of the research is the principle of historicism combined with elements of structural-functional analysis and the use of primary methods of ethnological science: retrospective, typological, comprehensive analysis, historical reconstruction, and so on.
The research territory covers the right-bank part of the Middle Dnipro region, including Cherkasy, the southern part of Kyiv, the eastern outskirts of Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions, as well as the northern outskirts of Kirovohrad region. The chronological scope of the study spans from the mid-19th to the first half of the 20th century.
The source base of the work includes the author’s field materials collected in the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi (2008), Kaniv, Cherkasy (2009) districts of Cherkasy region and in the Volodarsky district (2012) of Kyiv region. At the same time, to achieve the research goal, a considerable array of scientific literature and sources was involved, including the field research of contemporary Ukrainian scholar Zoia Hudchenko concerning folk construction on the right bank of the Middle Dnipro region.
Keywords: ethnology, traditional culture, Middle Dnipro region, construction technique, walls, frame, clay, wattle.
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