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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 4 (178), 945—954

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.04.945

«EMBROIDERED REVIVAL» AS A PHENOMENON OF NATIONAL UNION OF UKRAINIANS IN THE XXI CENTURY

PONOMAR Liudmyla

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1725-9230
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences,
  • Senior Research Fellow of the Department of
  • «Ukrainian Ethnological Center»,
  • M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 4, M. Hrushevskyi Street, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: ponomarl@ukr.net

SKLIAR Volodymyr

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0020-5973
  • Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor,
  • Chief Research Fellow of the Department of «Ukrainian Ethnological Center»,
  • M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 4  M. Hrushevskyi Street, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: sklyar_vm@ukr.net

Abstract. In the context of russia’s aggression against Ukraine, aimed at destroying the Ukrainian state and Ukrainians as a separate nation (its russification), it is extremely important for Ukrainians to understand their own national identity and internal unity. An important component of this process is the revival of Ukrainian traditional culture, including interest in traditional Ukrainian clothing. Therefore, it is no coincidence that at the beginning of the XXI century, Ukrainian embroidery became a vivid symbol of Ukrainian identity. This determines the relevance of the study. The purpose of the article is to establish the significance of Ukrainian embroidery as an important factor in the formation of Ukrainian identity in the early XXI century. The object of the research is traditional Ukrainian clothing as a component of Ukrainian identity and the subject of research is Ukrainian embroidery as a vivid phenomenon of national union of Ukrainians in the early XXI century. The methodological basis of the scientific research is the integrated use of general scientific methods (analysis and synthesis), as well as special historical methods (historical-comparative, historical-structural and historical-typological). The source base of the research on the revival of Ukrainian folk clothes, folk style in fashion is formed by the study of Internet-resources. The results of the study proved that traditional Ukrainian clothing has become an expression of the process of growing interest in folk culture as a marker of national identity and during the Revolution of Dignity, the embroidered shirt became an expression of unity and resistance on a national scale. It has been established that in the context of open russian aggression since 2022, Ukrainian embroidery has become even more popular and has become a unique phenomenon of national union of Ukrainians not only in Ukraine, but also in all countries where they have found themselves as displaced persons.

Keywords: Ukraine, Ukrainian embroidered shirt, Ukrainian national identity and national union, Ukrainian traditional culture, Ukrainian traditional dress, symbol of Ukrainianness, early XXI century.

Received 29.06.2024

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