« 2024. # 3 (177)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 3 (177), 485—500

UDK [94(477):572:39(=161.2)]:001.891-057.4С.Сегеда

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.03.485

SCIENTIFIC HORIZONS OF SERHIY SEGEDA: ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, HISTORY OF UKRAINE

PAVLYUK Stepan

  • ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-8099
  • Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor,
  • Academician of NAS of Ukraine, The Institute of Ethnology,
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU),
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: ina@mail.lviv.ua

Abstract. The article is devoted to the scientific activity of the chief employee of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Serhiy Segeda, a doctor of historical sciences, a professor with many years of teaching experience in the universities of Ukraine and Poland, who turned 75 years old. Serhiy Segeda is the author of about 20 monographs, popular science books and textbooks, 14 of which are individual; more than 120 articles, most of which were published in foreign publications; participant of about 80 international conferences, professor of Kyiv National University named after T. Shevchenko, Szczecin and Warsaw Universities (Poland), etc.

The purpose of the article is to reproduce the process of formation of research interests of the jubilee and to determine the main results of his scientific searches. The object of the research is the main milestones of Serhiy Segeda’s scientific activity, starting from his post-graduate years until today, the subject of the research is the scientific heritage of the scientist in the field of anthropology, ethnology and history of Ukraine.

The conclusions emphasize that the scientific activity of Professor Serhiy Segeda contributed to the revival and development of ethnic anthropology in Ukraine. The scientist proposed his own concept of the anthropological composition of the Ukrainian people and outlined the main stages of the anthropological history of Ukraine. The results of his scientific research related to the prospects for the creation of the Pantheon of Ukraine are of great importance. Anthropological, ethnological and historical studies of Serhiy Segeda were reflected in his monographs, textbooks and numerous articles published both in our country and abroad.

The intelligence methodology is based on general scientific principles and the main requirements for works of historical and ethnological direction, in particular, the methodological basis of the research is scientific-biographical and historical-cultural methods of analysis.

Keywords: Serhiy Segeda, anthropology, odontology, dermatoglyphics, anthropological composition, ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Ukrainian people, graves of prominent figures of the history and culture of Ukraine.

Received 20.05.2024

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