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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 5 (179), 987—991

UDK [39+72+94]-057.4(477)”19/20″Я.Тарас:001.891

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.05.987

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF YAROSLAV TARAS, THE RESEARCHER OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOCULTURE

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 creative path and scientific achievements of Yaroslav Taras, an outstanding architect, ethnologist, teacher, laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine in the field of architecture, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture, professor, doctor of historical sciences, head of the department of modern ethnology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who devoted his life to service of Ukraine. It is considered how the process of adaptation and development of the theoretical and methodological specificity of ethnological science took place. The results of this adaptation and work as the head of the department of modern ethnology are shown. Work in radioactively contaminated areas of Polissia and in numerous expeditions is covered.

It is not known whether Yaroslav Taras would have been able to realize himself as a researcher of the secrets of structural and spatial plasticity of Ukrainian sacred architectural masterpieces, if fate had not led him to the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where creative, persistent to the point of obsession individuals (that are professors) are treated with exquisite attention and full support for the disclosure and realization of God-given talent.

The relevance of the article is determined by the jubilee date  – the 80th anniversary of the scientist’s birthday.The intelligence methodology is based on general scientific methodological principles and basic requirements that apply to works of historical and ethnological direction.

Keywords: Yaroslav Taras, architecture, ethnology, Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Received  10.09.2024

REFERENCES

  • Taras, Ya. (2006). The Ukrainian Wooden Church Architecture: the illustrated dictionary. L’viv [in Ukrainian].
  • Taras, Ya. (2007). The sacred wooden architecture of Ukrainian Carpathians: the cultural-traditional aspect. L’viv [in Ukrainian].

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