Ethnic Culture of Ukrainians in the Research of the Scholar-Ethnologist, Science Organizer, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Hanna Skrypnyk

Author

Stishova Nataliia

a Ph.D. in History, an acting director of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6577-2325

Ethnic Culture of Ukrainians in the Research of the Scholar-Ethnologist, Science Organizer, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Hanna Skrypnyk

Abstract

The scientific heritage of an outstanding scholar-ethnologist, science organizer, devotee, educator, public figure, Doctor of History, professor, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Hanna Arkadiivna Skrypnyk, a talented and wise director of the academic multidisciplinary M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2002–2024), academician-secretary of the Department of Literature, Language and Art Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, is submitted in the article. The leading area of activity of the scientist, as the head of the institution, namely the development of relevant research trends, the formation of scientific schools and the submitting the multi-volume fundamental works (specialized histories, encyclopaedias, etc.) to society is described. The priority area of the Instituteʼs scientific activity is also considered in the article. It includes the preservation and popularization of ethnographic heritage. Emphasis is placed on the productive and multifaceted international scientific cooperation under the leadership of H. Skrypnyk together with academic scholars from Poland, Hungary, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, France, Turkey, Canada, the United States, Japan, Israel, and other countries in the field of Ukrainian Studies, ethnology and the humanities in general. She has been the head of the Ukrainian branch of the International Association for the Study and Dissemination of Slavic Cultures at UNESCO, president of the International Association of Ukrainianists, and co-chair of the International Association of Ethnologists. A brief description is given of the outstanding scholarʼs own monographic works on the problems of historical past and current state of ethnoculture in its regional and interethnic dimensions, the spiritual culture of the Ukrainian people, the ecology of national culture, ethnoidentification processes, ethnopsychology and ethnonational relations, the preservation and study of cultural heritage, ethnographic museology, history and theory of Ukrainian and foreign ethnology. Hanna Arkadiivna Skrypnyk as an authoritative world-class scholar, is a benchmark for contemporary Ukrainian humanitarianism, thanks to which her name is widely known in Ukraine as well as far beyond its borders.

Keywords

Hanna Skrypnyk, scientific, organizational and coordination activities, Ukrainians’ ethnic culture, ethnographic heritage, M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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