1 100 1 https://cius-archives.ca/files/original/ddc5c8851ee7118b64f39f15755a4a67.pdf a591b8cb08243cd0e6e2b211df827cea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Books</h4> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta Subject The topic of the resource Folk Medicines Alberta Canadian Ukrainians Culture Customs Diaspora Folklore Ukrainian Canadians XX c. Description An account of the resource 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 oral-incantational genre of folk medicine, incorporating Christian as well as non-Christian imagery. The Word and Wax is essential reading to anyone interested in the rich folkloric tradition brought to Alberta by early Ukrainian immigrants to Canada. The volume includes transliterations of the incantations of nine wax healers who practice or have practiced in Alberta. Among Ukrainians in Alberta, ethnography is the study of everyday people in cultural context. It involves the study of songs and stories, material culture, customs, art, and all types of traditional elements in life. Customs at Christmas, at weddings and other special times reveal the soul of a community. Ukrainian folklore has been associated with the study of village traditions in previous centuries; now it also includes twentieth-century culture, both in Ukraine and in Canada. The Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology publishes scholarship dealing with the culture and folklore of Ukrainians and Ukrainians in Canada. It is published jointly by the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. See Ukrainians and Alberta in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rena Jeanne Hanchuk Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available CIUS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rena Jeanne Hanchuk Language A language of the resource English 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