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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 3 (177), 532—538

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.03.532

ACTIVITIES OF IVAN RAKOVSKY IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC COMMISSION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

PATSAY Tamara

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4469-250X
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences,
  • Scientific Secretary of the Ethnology Institute
  •  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  •  Contacts: e-mail: patsay@nas.gov.ua

Abstract. Ivan Rakovsky (1874—1949) is a famous Ukrainian scientist. His activities had a great influence on the development of various areas of Ukrainian scientific life, he is known as a popularizer of science, a professor at the Ukrainian Secret University in Lviv, a full member, and later chairman of the SSSh, inspirer and editor-in-chief of the first Ukrainian encyclopedia — the Ukrainian General Encyclopedia.

The scientific environment that developed in the Ethnographic Commission of NTSh in the early twentieth century and consisted of I. Franko, Ph. Vovk, V. Hnatiuk, M. Hrushevsky and others attracted many researchers, one of them was I. Rakovsky. He began his anthropological research under the direction of Ph. Vovk, later with his own assistance received European training and was formed as a mature scientist.

The article explores various areas of Ivan Rakovsky’s collaboration in the Ethnographic Commission, such as participation in ethnographic and anthropological expeditions, publication and editorial activities, work at international conferences, participation in meetings of the EC, etc.

Thus, the purpose of the article is to explore the main activities of Ivan Rakovsky in the Ethnographic Commission of SSSh.

The object of the study is the contribution of Ivan Rakovsky to Ukrainian ethnology, the subject is the activity of the scientist in the Ethnographic Commission of SSSh.

The source base of the article was the minutes of the meetings of the Ethnographic Commission, the Chronicle of the SSSh and the epistolary, the periodicals of that time.

The chronological boundaries of the study cover the years of the scientist’s life – 1874—1949.

The research methodology is based on theoretical analysis, systematization and generalization, historical review and observations of the author.

Keywords: Ethnographic Commission, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Ivan Rakovsky, anthropology, ethnology, interwar period.

Received 5.06.2024

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