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Comparison of two essays: “The History and Present State of Research” and “Rozvykok ukrains’koi fol’klorystyky"

A Review of Ukrainian folklore in Canada: An immigrant complex in transition by Robert Klymasz.

A summary of a book by Berezovs’yi “Ukrains’ka radians’ka fol’klorystyka”

“Folklore politics in the Soviet Ukraine” by Klymasz and “Concepts of folklore and folklife studies” by Dorson

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.

An analysis and comparative sources of some beliefs about weather collected from a taped interview.

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.

Describes how hemp is prepared for weaving in the Ivano-Frankivs'k region.

“Folklore politics in the Soviet Ukraine” by Klymasz and “Concepts of folklore and folklife studies” by Dorson

The informant describes dances held in homes for small family and social occasions in the village of Horodenka and in Western Canada

The informant describes the customs associated with various winter holidays such as Christmas Eve, New Year's and Iordan

The informant describes how an outdoor oven or "Piets" was constructed and used in Western Ukraine

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

Based on Kotsiubynsky’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and Klymasz’s Funerary rhetoric among Ukrainians in western Canada