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The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta

The Word and Wax explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring used by some members of the Alberta Ukrainian community as a means of driving away fear and curing minor ailments. The ceremony is of the magico-religious and…

Tags: Alberta Folklore, Anxiety Treatment, Beeswax Rituals, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, Christian Imagery, Christmas Customs, Community Healers, Cultural Adaptation, Cultural Health Practices, Cultural Heritage, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Ethnographic Research, Fear Sickness, Folk Customs, Folk Medicine Studies, Folk Medicines, Folk Remedies, Health And Culture, Immigrant Adaptation, Magico-religious Rituals, Medical Anthropology, Medical Folk Rituals, Oral Incantations, Pre-Christian Traditions, Rena Jeanne Hanchuk, Ritual Healing, Strakh Vylyvaty, Stress Reduction, Transposed Cultural Traditions, Ukrainian Canadian Literature, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian Ethnography, Ukrainian Folk Medicine, Ukrainian Folklore, Ukrainian Healers, Ukrainian Healing Traditions, Ukrainian Heritage, Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada, Ukrainian Material Culture, Ukrainian Settlers, Ukrainian Storytelling, Ukrainians in Alberta, Village Traditions, Vylyvaty Visk, Wax Ceremony, Wax Healers, Wax Pouring Ritual, Wax Pouring Tradition, Wedding Traditions

The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer

A description of the construction, history, and use of the Ukrainian hammer dulcimer in Canada. This volume appears in the Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, co-published with the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the…

Tags: Ballads, Canada, Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, Carols, Choral Music, Construction of Hammer Dulcimer, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Ethnography, Folk Songs, Folklore, History of Hammer Dulcimer, Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, Mark Jaroslav Bandera, Tsymbaly Maker, Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer, University of Alberta, Use of Hammer Dulcimer

Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature

On May 3, 2014 Dr. Michael M. Naydan (Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Pennsylvania State University) gave the 15th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary…

Tags: Beliefs, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Folklore, Literature, Michael M. Naydan, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon

On May 14, 2011 Dr. Marko R. Stech (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, York University, Toronto) gave the 12th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon"

Tags: Communism, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Folklore, Literature, Marko Stech, Mykola Kulish, Religion, Revolution, Socialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Kyiv through Myth and Imagination

On May 14, 2004 Prof. Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto) gave the fifth Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Kyiv through Myth and Imagination"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Historiography, Kyiv, Literature, Myths, Narrative, Taras Koznarsky, Ukraine

The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains

CIUS seminar audio. On October 16, 2012 Virlana Tkacz (Yara Arts Group, La MaMa Experimental Theater, New York), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains”Found in CIUS…

Tags: Art, Carols, Carpathian Mountains, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Folklore, Rituals, Songs, Theatre, Ukraine, Virlana Tkacz, Yara Arts Group

The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore

CIUS seminar audio.On October 12, 2012 CIUS hosted a round table on the topic: “The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore” (cosponsored by the Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography).Presenters included Bohdan…

Tags: Bohdan Harasymiw, CIUS Seminar, David Marples, Elections, Folklore, Myroslava Uniat, Natalie Kononenko, Parliamentary, Politics, Post-1991, Ukraine

The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo

CIUS seminar audio.On October 20, 2011, Anna Pidgorna (Department of Music, University of Calgary), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo” (co-sponsored by the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and…

Tags: Anna Pidgorna, Art, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Folklore, Literature, Opera, Paganism, Religion, Rituals, Songs, Ukraine

Group-sourcing Ukrainian Folklore: Involving the Community in Research

CIUS seminar audio.On February 17, 2011, Natalie Kononenko (Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography at the Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta), gave a seminar on the topic:…

Tags: Canada, CIUS Seminar, Community, Culture, Folklore, Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Canadians

Part 16: The Role of Folklore and Popular Etymology: Ukrainian Toponymies in Canada

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: Canada, Conference, Etymology, Folklore, Interwar, Toponymies, Ukraine, Yurii Zavhorodniev

The Music of the Dumy

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.The Institute's seminar series at the University of Alberta commenced on 18 September. Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc, assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Slavic languages, spoke on "The Music of the…

Tags: Andrij Hornjatkevyč, Art, Bandura, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Duma, Folklore, Literature, Music, Narrative, Poetry, Songs, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Fables about Animals

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Dr. B. Medwidsky, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages, delivered the eighth Institute seminar at the University of Alberta. On February 6, 1979 he spoke on "Fables about Animals." Dr. Medwidsky…

Tags: Animals, Bohdan Medwidsky, CIUS Seminar, Folklore, Literature, Press, Soviet Ukraine, Tales, Ukrainian Literature, V. Hnatiuk

Українська словесність про січове стрілецтво: деякі аспекти історичної дійсності та фольклорної естетики

Tags: Cossack Hetmanate, Cossacks, Folklore, History, Оксана Кузьменко

Kobza

Published posthumously, this beautiful collection of more than 130 Ukrainian folk songs, including tablatures and lyrics, is intended for bandurists, musicians, and lovers of Ukrainian music in general. See kobza and bandura in the Enclopedia of…

Tags: Andrij Hornjatkevyč, Bandura, Bandurists, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Folk, Folk Music, Kobza, Music, Musicians, Ukrainian Folk Songs, Ukrainian Music, Zynovii Shtokalko

Kobzarskyi Pidruchnyk

This book is both a theoretical and a practical volume for the bandurist's library. Various chapters address exercises (e.g. left-hand, right-hand, both hands), playing techniques, etc. Dozens of songs, tablatures, lyrics, and detailed information…

Tags: Andrij Hornjatkevyč, Bandura Playing Techniques, Bandura Virtuoso, Bandurist, Contemporary Bandura, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Folk, Folk Music, Kobza, Kobzarskyi Pidruchnyk, Lyrics, Music, Music Studies, Tablatures, Ukrainian Songs, Zynovii Shtokalko

Tkanyna : an exhibit of Ukrainian weaving = Tkanyna: vystavka ukraı̈nsʹkoho tkat͡stva

This is beautiful title contains a parallel bilingual English-Ukrainian text and includes colour photographs of Ukrainian textiles and weaving artifacts displayed at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near Edmonton in 1988.

Co-published with…

Tags: Alberta Ukrainian Commemorative Society, Art, Barbara Wilberg, Bilingual English-Ukrainian Text, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Folklore, Friends of Ukrainian Village Society, Radomir Bilash, Radomir Borislaw, Tkanyna, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Ukrainian Textiles, Ukrainian Weaving, Ukrainian Weaving Artifacts, Ukrainians in Alberta

Ukrainian Oral Literature / Українська Усна Словесність

Tags: Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Filiaret Kolessa, Folklore, Folklore Studies, Oral Tradition, Traditional Storytelling, Ukrainian Folklore, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian Oral Literature

RR No. 56. A SURVEY OF UKRAINIAN FOLK TALES

Survey of Ukrainian Folk Tales is divided into four parts: A survey of Ukrainian folk-tale collecting. Remarks about the generic relationship of the East-Slavic folk tale A description of the national repertoire Analysis of the origin and development…

Tags: Bohdan Medwidsky, Petro Lintur

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