A collection of course work by Mark Bandera including book reviews, annotated bibliographies, and essay on topics such as folklore, folksongs, tsymbaly, and bandury.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA description of how an outdoor oven (p'iets) was made and how the weather influenced the use of it from the recollections of Ivan Ivasiuk.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA description of how Tsymbaly are tuned by Ted Harasymchuk and a description of how kutia is made by Mrs. Koroluk.
A description of customs and songs associated with Zeleni Sviata (Green Holidays) as described by Mark Bandera.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA comparison of traditional Ukrainian folksongs from contemporary Poland with those in North America. An analysis of Lemko features in music and a general discussion of song types, texts and translations.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavDescribes wedding customs in Ivanivtsi (Ivano-Frankivsk region) in the 1920's. The customs begin with courtship, and end with the purification or homecoming. Some of the informants also describe wedding rites in Bereziv
A book review on "Ukrains'ka radians'ka fol'kloristika" (Soviet Ukrainian Folklore) by Berezovs'kyi.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA review of a book of folksongs gathered by Marko Vovchok,issued by Muzychna Ukraina in1979.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA review of Robert Kylmasz's doctoral dissertation "Ukrainian folklore in Canada: An immigrant complex in transition".
Bandera, Mark JaroslavThe file consists of textual and audiovisual materials related to tsymbaly making by Tom Chychul.
Field videos of Chychul making tsymbaly
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA description of the tsymbaly including a description of a tsymbaly maker, Tom Chychul.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavThis file contains eight various assignments completed by Mark Bandera for different Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Alberta.
A comparative study of two articles: “Ethnography: The History and Present State of Research”and “The Development of Ukrainian Folklore”.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA summary of two articles: "Folklore Politics in the Soviet Ukraine: Perspective on Some Recent Trends and Developments" by Robert Kylmasz and "Concepts of Folklore and Folklife Studies" by Richard Dorson.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA collection of proverbs about birth, weddings, and death.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA comparison of two works: "Speaking At/About/with the Dead: Funerary Rhetoric Among Ukrainians in Western Canada" by Robert Klymasz and "Tini zabutykh predkiv" by Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA analysis of the life cycles in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi with direct quotes from the text and examples of rites of passage.
Bandera, Mark JaroslavA study on the different approaches to define culture.
Bandera, Mark Jaroslav