Ethno-­Cultural Heritage of the Belarusians in Context of Modern Belarusian Culture

Author

Kaspiarovich Halina – a Doctor of History, an associate professor, a leading research fellow at Ethnology Department of the Centre for Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Ethno-­Cultural Heritage of the Belarusians in Context of Modern Belarusian Culture

Abstract

The article displays an outline of research into the ethno-cultural heritage of the Belarusians carried out by the Centre of Research into the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, characterizes major trends of investigating fundamental and applied issues in the sphere of culture, and accentuates the interrelations and scientific cooperation with the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The authoress also focuses upon modern ways of folk architecture preservation and analyses the methods of arrangement and creation of a state open-air museum, museification of traditional wooden buildings related to the names of eminent cultural figures. Folklore sources enabled the authoress to describe spiritual traditions in architecture (settlements and streets, types of dwelling, yard, outbuildings, and church). On the basis of statistical and field data, as well as literary sources, there have been investigated the trends and specific character of animal-husbandry development in factory-farm enterprises, personal subsidiary plots and farmers’ smallholdings; there have been also revealed the untapped reserves and problems of the field.

Keywords

ethno-cultural heritage, tradition, scientific cooperation, folk architecture, spiritual traditions in folk architecture, animal-husbandry traditions.

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