Applied Aspects of Modern Ethno-Cultural Studies

Author

Sushko Valentyna

a Ph.D. in History, an Associate Professor, an acting chair of Theory and History of Arts Department of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts

Applied Aspects of Modern Ethno-Cultural Studies

Abstract

The border location, many years of the Russification of the Ukrainians of northern east of Ukraine cause the fact that ethnographic studies in Slobozhanshchyna could not and cannot be exclusively the realm of scientific discourse.

From the 1930s investigation of folk culture of Slobozhanshchyna hasn’t been conducted almost until the end of the twentieth century. Renewal of ethnographic research has started with ethnomusicological studies. The public organization Union of Ethnologists and Folklorists of the City of Kharkiv has been established in 1993. It has been conducting active field ethnographic, publishing and popularization work since that time. N. Oliynyk, the head of the Union, has organized the regional children’s festival of traditional folk culture Krokoveye Kolo, which includes ethnographic pupil conferences, a festival of crafts and folk performance.

Since the end of the twentieth century ethnological research is conducted by specialists of leading scientific establishments of Ukraine, museums and out-of-school educational institutions of Kharkivshchyna, Sumshchyna, Donechchyna and Luhanshchyna, because folk culture is an important factor in the consolidation of the Ukrainian nation. That is why the support of the state and the strict implementation of nation-building principles by state bodies are so important.

Keywords

Slobozhanshchyna, ethnology, ethnography, museum, open-air museum (skansen), ethnomusicology, folkloristics.

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