Andriy Nahachewsky is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. He holds a B.A. in Ukrainian Studies (University of Saskatchewan, 1979), a B.F.A. in Dance (York University, 1985), M.A. and Ph.D. in Ukrainian Folklore (University of Alberta, 1985 and 1991, supervised by Bohdan Medwidsky). He has an extensive background in Ukrainian dance, as a performer, instructor, choreographer, workshop leader, critic, adjudicator, and authour. He has taught a wide variety of courses at the university level in many aspects of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian traditional culture. His research interests and publications deal with Ukrainian dance, Ukrainian Canadian identity, material culture, ethnic representation, and dance theory. He has conducted fieldwork in Canada, the U.S.A., Brazil, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, and other countries. His most recent book is Ukrainian Dance: A Cross-Cultural Approach (McFarland Press, 2012).
Andriy served as the Director of the Peter and Doris Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore and Curator of the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives since their inception and until summer of 2016. Dr. Nahachewsky retired in the summer of 2018, but continues his research and actively participates in the international dance research community.
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The collection consists of various course assignments submitted by Andriy when he was a master and PhD student in the Ukrainian Folklore Program at the University of Alberta. The assignments cover different topics of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian traditional culture and folklore, and include field recordings as well as final essays.
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An analysis and comparative sources of some beliefs about weather collected from a taped interview.
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Describes how hemp is prepared for weaving in the Ivano-Frankivs'k region.
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The informant describes how an outdoor oven or "Piets" was constructed and used in Western Ukraine
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The informant describes the customs associated with various winter holidays such as Christmas Eve, New Year's and Iordan
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The informant describes dances held in homes for small family and social occasions in the village of Horodenka and in Western Canada
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Comparison of two essays: “The History and Present State of Research” and “Rozvykok ukrains’koi fol’klorystyky"
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A summary of a book by Berezovs’yi “Ukrains’ka radians’ka fol’klorystyka”
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“Folklore politics in the Soviet Ukraine” by Klymasz and “Concepts of folklore and folklife studies” by Dorson
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“Folklore politics in the Soviet Ukraine” by Klymasz and “Concepts of folklore and folklife studies” by Dorson
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Description of the wedding of Nykola Nahachewsky and Maria Kowch in Swan Lake, Saskatchewan, 1920. The wedding is analyzed in terms of the influence of four factors: momentum of tradition, personalities of the participants, incidental circu
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A Review of Ukrainian folklore in Canada: An immigrant complex in transition by Robert Klymasz.
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Based on Kotsiubynsky’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and Klymasz’s Funerary rhetoric among Ukrainians in western Canada
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A study of the soviet Ukrainian journal Narodna tvorchist' taethnohrafiia for the years 1983 and 84 in an attempt to understand the relative roles of the comparative and national orientations in contemporary Soviet folkloristics. bib.