Ethnographic Studies of Yuriy Fedkovych and Hryhoriy Kupchanko in the XIXth Century

Author

Kozholianko Oleksandr – a Doctor of History, an associate professor, an administrative assistant of the Bukovynian Ethnographical Society

Ethnographic Studies of Yuriy Fedkovych and Hryhoriy Kupchanko in the XIXth Century

Abstract

Bukovynian Ethnography has been formed in the late XIXth century. The creation of educational society Ruska Besida in the 1850s–1860s is an event of a great importance for the Ukrainian Bukovynian Ethnography. V. Kozaryshchuk, V. Prodan, S. Vorobkevych, etc. are called among the ethnographers-researchers of the late XIXth century. However, Yuriy Fedkovych and Hryhoriy Kupchanko are known as the persons possessing the superiority in ethnographic studies in Bukovyna in the late XIXth century.

Yuriy Fedkovych has studied calendar rites of the Bukovyna Ukrainians (the celebration of Christmas, New Year, Yuriy feast, etc.). First of all, he has investigated the calendar rituals of the Ukrainians-Hutsuls, Christmas rites in particular. Hryhoriy Kupchanko has investigated the material culture of Bukovyna and its ethnic complement in the late XIXth century. He is the author of more than two thousands of the articles, studies, poems, besides the self-reliant editions. Hryhoriy Kupchanko has been the editor of newspapers Zvezda (1882) in London, Ruska Pravda (1888–1892) and Prosveshchenie (1893–1902) in Vienna. A chain of his works have been forbidden in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

Hryhoriy Kupchanko has written a considerable number of educational literature concerning different subjects, like historical, religious issues, everyday advices in different spheres of life.

Keywords

Ethnography, research, calendar rituals, material culture, ethnos.

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