UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
L-R: Roman Senkus, Dr. Marko R. Stech, and Andrij Makuch
Recollections about the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada
Thi is a translation of the memoirs of William Czumer, Spomyny pro perezhyvannia pershykh ukrains'kykh pereselentsiv v Kanadi, which chronicle Ukrainian life in Canada during the first twenty-five years of settlement. See Ukrainians and Alberta in…
Continuity and Change: The Cultural Life of Alberta's First Ukrainians
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the life of the first Ukrainian immigrants. The volume consists of eight parts. It begins with a prologue by Roman Onufrijchuk that sets the stage for understanding the difficult process of cultural…
Ethnicity in a Technological Age
Twelve path-breaking essays define the territory for a Canadian social philosophy of ethnicity. They address the major issues of immigration, discrimination, consumerism, government policy, ethics, gender, media, and political strategy. From a…
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century
This first case study of how the East European peasantry was drawn into national politics focuses on the Ukrainians of Galicia (1772–1914). On the basis of first-hand testimony by peasants and rural notables, it demonstrates that the peasants'…
Development in the Shadow: Studies in Ukrainian Economics
The Russian occupation of Ukraine under the tsarist and communist regimes exerted a decisive influence on the development of Ukrainian economics. The present collection of essays, written over a ten-year period, explores some of the pertinent issues.…
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
On December 4 1976 in Edmonton, CIUS and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, France) signed an agreement to jointly publish what becomes the five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Sitting (l-r): Dr. George Luckyj, Dr. Volodymyr…
Ukraine: From Chernobyl' to Sovereignty: A Collection of Interviews
This collection of fifteen stimulating interviews with well-known figures and academics is relevant. It includes discussions with Adam Michnik, Vitalii Karpenko, Pavlo Movchan, Mykola Riabchuk, Yurii Pokalchuk, Ivan Drach, Anatolii Pohribnyi,…
