Author
Skrypnyk Hanna
doctor of historical sciences, professor, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the NAS of Ukraine.
Issues of ethnological terminology on the pages of “Primitive Citizenship”
Abstract
The article provides a historiographical review of the issues of ethnological terminology on the pages of the journal The Primitive Citizenship and Its Remnants in Ukraine. It also gives the characteristics of general criteria, which were applied to forming the conceptual apparatus of the 1920s to early 1930s domestic ethnology; illustrated are the leading approaches of domestic and foreign scholars (Kateryna Hrushevska, Kostiantyn Koperzhynskyi, Yevhen Kaharov, Oleksa Vetukhiv, Khvedir Vovk, Andriy Kovalivskyi, Jan Stanisław Bystroń, Jan Czekanowski, Paul Rivet, and others).
The study emphasizes the relevance of considering, on the pages of this journal by the researchers of the 1920s to early 1930s, the question of delimitating the subject areas of such ethnological disciplines as ethnology, ethnography, ethnic studies, folklore studies, as well as related sciences – anthropology, cultural history, sociology, etc. The role of Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi and Kateryna Hrushevska in developing methodological principles of national ethnology is accentuated.
Keywords
subject area of ethnography, interdisciplinary delimitations, ethnography, anthropology, ethnology, ethnography.
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