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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 4 (178), 799—809

UDK 398.87(477=161.2+5-15=1):[008:17.035.3]

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.04.799

COBZARSTVO IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ETHNO-CULTURAL ORIGINALITY OF UKRAINIANS AND THE NATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

NABOK Maryna

  • ОRCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9422-730X
  • Candidate of Philology, Docent
  • Department of language preparation of foreign citizens
  • Sumy State University
  • 116, Kharkivska Street,40000, Sumy, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: е-mail: m.nabok@drl.sumdu.edu.ua

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to investigate the Kobzar epic tradition in the context of the ethno-cultural identity of Ukrainians and the peoples of the Middle East (Jordan, Palestine, Turkey).

A significant part of scientific research consists of feedback from listeners from different regions of Ukraine about folklor’s dumas and their performers (kobzars, bandurists), as well as feedback from foreign students from the countries of the Middle East. In this connection, the peculiarities of the life and perception of Ukrainian folk dumas, epic performance and the influence of the Kobzar epic on the formation of the spiritual world, national consciousness, national resilience, and the statist worldview of Ukrainians are analyzed. On the basis of the feedback of foreign students, we found out that for them, unknown and unique characteristics of the character of Ukrainians, their rich inner world, freedom-loving, steadfastness in the struggle for their independence are revealed.

The following methods formed the theoretical and methodological basis for the study of kobzarstvo as a phenomenon of the spiritual culture of Ukrainians: 1) structural-genetic analysis and synthesis, which involved the identification of certain characteristic features of traditional epic performance. This made it possible to reveal more deeply the meaning and role of traditional Kobzar art, the image of the executor of Ukrainian folk dumas in the formation of the national worldview, the civic and socio-political position of Ukrainians; 2) comparative-historical in determining the national features of world perception and world understanding by listeners from different regions of Ukraine and the countries of the Middle East of the heroes of the Ukrainian folk’s dumas, the kobzar-bandurist, testifying to the ethno-cultural wealth of each individual nation.

Keywords: kobzarstvo, epic tradition, Ukrainian folk dumas, ethnoculture, identity, national consciousness, spiritual and cultural memory.

Received 29.06.2024

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