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The Ethnology Notebooks, 2018, № 5 (143), 1069—1076

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.05.1069

Received  10.07.2018

ETHNIC INVESTIGATIONS OF DOCTOR OF ARTS STUDIES OLENA NYKORAK

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-6563

Sapeliak Oksana Adamivna, Candidate of Sciences in History, Senior Researcher

in the department of the modern ethnology

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue 15,  79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: e-mail: oksana.sapelyak@gmail.com

Abstrakt. Some aspects of ethnological investigations in the scientific work of the doctor of art studies, Olena Nykorak, are analyzed. In particular, those works of the scientist are analyzed, in which for the first time the important issues of the Ukrainian national culture are touched upon ethnographic peculiarities. It emphasizes the importance of its research, in which the development of cultural elements is presented in synchronous and diachronic sections, the polyfunctionality of objects of folk culture, their semiotic meanings depending on the concrete use is considered.

Keywords: folk art, ethnology, tradition, weaving, museology, expeditions, ritual.

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