This collection consists of materials collected by Ashley Halko-Addley for her graduate research project, Waxing Away Illness, at the University of Alberta. In 2018, Ashley conducted interviews and observations of the wax ceremony in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This collection consists primarily of transcripts, audio recordings, and fieldnotes, with select supplementary materials.
A supplementary website was created by Ashley Halko-Addley. The website highlights some of the participants and important selections from their interviews. The website can be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/waxingawayillness/
Sans titreThis item is a transcript of an interview conducted with Jean at her home in Edmonton, on July 5, 2018.
This file contains an audio recording of an interview conducted with Jean at her home in Edmonton, on July 5, 2018.
This item is an audio recording of an interview with Gail Fenton, conducted October 3, 2018.
This file contains audio and an accompanying transcript from an interview with Mrs. H.K.
This item is an audio recording of an interview with Kendra which was conducted at her home in Saskatoon on June 8, 2018
This series includes materials from interviews collected with people living in the Edmonton area. This series includes transcripts and audio recordings from interviews and photographs.
This file contains materials collected from an interview with Jean. Jean is a healer who pours wax in the Edmonton area.
This file contains an interview transcript from an interview conducted with Mrs. N.D. and her son Mr. B.D., as well as photographs of wax. Mrs. N.D.'s mother was a prolific healer in the Edmonton area, up until the 1980s.
This item is an audio recording of an interview with Gail Fenton conducted on October 3, 2018. The interview was conducted at a local coffee shop, and background noise reflects interview location.
This item is a transcript of an interview conducted with Mrs. H.K. in her home in Saskatoon on June 8, 2018.
This series includes materials collected during interviews with people in Wakaw, SK and with a person who has visited the Wakaw healer. This series includes 2 transcripts, 2 audio files, a business card, and 2 crystals.
This item is an audio recording of an interview with wax pourer, Diane Schitka, which was conducted at her home near Wakaw, SK on June 9, 2018
This item is a transcript of an interview with Kendra which was conducted at her home in Saskatoon on June 8, 2018
This item is a list of questions that were used during the interviews. As interviews were open-ended, allowing the participant to guide the interview, not all questions and topics discussed are included in the interview questionnaire.
The interview with Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc was conducted by Kateryna Kod at the time of donation of Beztaktnist' on May 22, 2018.
This item is a transcript of an interview with wax pourer, Diane Schitka, which was conducted at her home near Wakaw, SK on June 9, 2018
This item is a research paper written about the folk hero, Oleksa Dovbush from Ukraine, and what he and other folk heroes say about the Ukrainian national narrative.
Sans titreThis item is a research paper about the symbolism of the rooster in Eastern Slavic folktales, using "Ivanoushka the Simpleton", "The Fox, the Hare and the Cock", and "the Tale of the Golden Cockerel" for analysis.
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