Author
Ivanchyshen Vitaliy – a Ph.D. in History, a junior research fellow at the NASU M. Rylskyi IASFE Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department
Problems of Preserving and Protecting Stonecutting Monuments within an Ethnocultural Landscape: A Recovery of Historical Memory and Modern Representational Forms
Abstract
The article with issues of preservation and protection of stonecutting monuments, being still kept within the cultural landscape of the Eastern Podillia region. The research of symbolical space and sacral monuments turns out to be only one of the components of implementing an effective ethno-cultural policy. While labelling the symbolical space, both commemorative locations and sacral objects appear to be encoded loci (messages), in which informational potential (achievements) of the Ukrainian collective memory is being constantly accumulated.
Based on field ethnographic data and illustrative materials collected, the author generalizes the issues of preserving these monuments, as well as forms of their modern representation in cultural landscape. One of the biggest obstacles in the process of creation of ethnographic map and formation of stonecutting monument register is an absence of a uniform classification approach to these objects.
The issue of preserving and protecting stonecutting monuments as attributes of the Ukrainian cultural landscape is a topical demand of nowadays. Against the background of process of constructing the collective identity of Ukrainian community, it is important to attract all the recourses necessary for the matter. One of them is historical memory, whose reminiscences can be activated on the ground of reconstructing local objects of cultural landscape as attributes of ethno-cultural succession and historical continuance of the community. Throughout the peripeteias of the XXth century and purposeful activities of the Soviet ideology, the tradition of cultural landscape sacralization has been gradually levelled.
One of modern manifestations has become the tradition of restoring or installing various new symbols and monuments, which mark space, with sacralizing and creating a new symbolic environment in it. That is why one of the most important tasks of nowadays is the issue of mechanisms of reestablishing the ties of succession and recreating the almost forgotten knowledge.
Keywords
cultural landscape, stonecutting monuments.
References
- Scientific Archives of the Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine, fund 9. The D. Shcherbakivskyi Archives, unit 236. The Protection of Monuments, Antiquities, and Arts. Acts, Resolutions, Applications, Hearings, Correspondence, etc. 1919–1923, 47 sheets.
- Aleksandrovich Yu. (1916) Stonecutters-Artisans and Craftsmen of the Podolian Governorate. HandicraftIndustry of the Podolian Governorate. Kiev, pp. 465–501.
- Aleksandrovich Yu. (1915) Culture and History Department of the Museum of Podolian Governorate. Podolia’sEconomicLife, № 4, pp. 9–18.
- Hrymych M.(sci ed.) (2017) AnthropologyofSpace (collected scientific papers and materials) (Ukrainian Studies Research Institute of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) (in four volumes). Vol. 1: Cultural Landscape of Kyiv and Its Vicinities (Braychenko O. et al.). Kyiv: Duliby, 314 pp.
- Bosa L. (2014) Cultural Landscape and Identity (Ethno-Cultural Transformations and Interactions on the Terrains of the Southern Over Dnipro Lands). The Ukrainian Ethnic Group within the Space of Modern Intercultural Interaction: Traditionality’s Transformation and Ethno-Cultural Interactions (M.Rylskyi IASFE of the NAS of Ukraine). Kyiv, pp. 251–321.
- Brodel F. (2013) The Identity of France. Space and History (transl. by S. Hlukhova). Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo Zhupanskoho, Book 1, 368 pp.
- Guldman V. (1901) Monuments of Antiquity in Podolia (Materials for Mapping an Archeological Map of the Podolian Governorate). Kamenets-Podolskiy: Podolian Provincial Administration, 401 pp.
- 8. European Landscape Convention (electronic resource). Available at: http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/994_154.
- Ivanchyshen V. (2017) Stonecutting Trade of Late-XIXth to Early-XXIst-Century Eastern Podillia. Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 215 pp.
- Horbyk V. (ed.-in-chief) (2008) The Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in Ukraine (1917–1919) (Compilers – O. Nestulia, S. Nestulia, H. Rudyi) (NAS of Ukraine, Institute of Ukrainian History). Kyiv, 320 pp.
- Riznychenko V. (1926) Witnesses of Former Wildernesses in Podillia. Bulletin of the Ukrainian Branch of the Geological Committee, Issue 6, pp. 79–88 + ill.
- (1986) The Holiday of Folk Art «The Podolian Amulet»: A Programme of the First Stonecutting Plein-Air «The Podolian Amulet» (1986). Yampil, 16 pp.
- Solomonova T. Development of Podolian Museology through 1860s up to 1924 (electronic resource). Available at: http://vinnytsia-museum.in.ua/science/articles/podillya-museum-business-1860-1924.
- Shyrotskyi K. (1998) Graveside Crosses in Ukraine. Inexhaustible Sources of Memory: collected scientific papers, materials and republications. Odesa: OKFA, Vol. 1. Graveside Crosses of Zaporizhzhia Cossacks: On Occasion of the Thousandth Anniversary of Writing of Annals and Book Production, pp. 140–165.