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Authors, published in the Journal «Ethnology notebooks»

Segeda Sergij

Doctor of Sciences in History. Chief Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Scienses of Ukraine, Department of Historical Ethnology, Professor of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Universities of Szczecin and Warsaw (Poland), Department of Historical Ethnology, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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Ivashkiv Halyna

Doctor of Sciences in Art Criticism, Senior Scholar at the Ethnology Institute at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Folk Art Department at the Museum of Ethnography, Arts and Crafts.

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Herus Lyudmyla

Doctor of Sciences in History, Сandidate of Аrts(Ph.~D), Head of Department, The Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Departmentof Folk Art.

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Kuzmenko Oksana

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Doctor of Science in Philology (Ph.D. in Folklore Studies), Senior Scholar, Leading Research Associate of the Department of Social Anthropology The Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0512-6388

е-mail: kuzmenko.oksana@gmail.com

Scientific interests: folklore studies, oral history, ethnolinguistics, historical anthropology, ethnology; researches Ukrainian folklore, regional folklore, poetics of folklore innovations of the 20th century, various aspects of ethnolinguistics.

Yaroslav Taras

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Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Modern Ethnology Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Architecture and Conservation.

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Oksana Kis

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Senior scientific employee, candidate of historical sciences, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers women’s history www.womenhistory.org.ua

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Oksana Sapeliak

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PhD in History, Senior Research Associale, Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy Of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Modern Ethnology, Active Member of the ShevchenkoScientific Society.

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Olena Nykorak

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Doctor of Art Studies, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Leading Researcher Ethnology Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Folk Art Department.

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Wax candle as ukrainian Christmas and epiphany ritualistic text
For the first time in native ethnology the article has brought some results of special study in sign functionality of a wax candle under the context of Ukrainian Christmas and Epiphany ritualistic text (ritualism of Christmas Eve, New Year, Epiphany Eve and Feast of Epiphany). The study has stated extremely high semiotic position of a wax candle as projection of Sun, mediator between the spheres of sacral and prophane elements, symbolic analogue of human existence, apotropy, cultural symbol re-establishing borders of acculturated space.
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Maternity ritualism by volhynians in publications of the second half XIX to the early XXI cc.
In the article have been considered some basic landmarks for fixing and publication of ethnographic materials on the maternity rites of Volhynia with analytical study in ritual elements, their kinds and territories of origin. The article has also raised a problem of gaps in studies of maternity rites of Ukrainian historio-ethnographic Volhynia.
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On field exploration of russian and belarusian ethnologists and etnolinguists in Ukrainian Polisia 1945—1980s
In the study based on a wide range of literary materials have been comprehensively characterised field research in Polisia of Ukraine, performed by Russian and Belarusian ethnologists during 1945—1980s as well as Moscow ethnolinguists and other researchers from ethnologic centres of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in the course of realization of Ethnolinguistic Atlas of Polisia program. Particular attention has been paid to geography, methods, themes and research results of scientific projects.
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Boikos’ pandemonium: categories of evil deceased
In the article have been presented some research-work on peculiarities of Boikos’ traditional demonological notions as for so-called evil deceased; on the basis of field records and ethnological literary sources quite a number of scum categories have been defined as well as essential habits, modes of behavior and functions of these personages of people’s demonology.
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