Areological Interpretations of the Traditional Clothing of Yakiv Prylypko in the Context of Modern Challenges

Author

Ponomar Liudmyla

a Ph.D. in History, a senior research fellow at the Ukrainian Ethnological Center Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1725-9230

Areological Interpretations of the Traditional
Clothing of Yakiv Prylypko in the Context of Modern Challenges

Abstract

The article is devoted to the heritage of the founder of the ”Historical-Ethnographic Atlas of Clothing of Ukraine” Ya. P. Prylypko and its importance for modern research of the folk clothing. The scientist’s conclusions concerning the regional specifics of traditional clothing of Ukrainians are relevant, embroidery of shirts in particular; the endurance of the ethnic tradition, which is manifested in the variety of clothing of Ukrainians. They are an important basis for refuting theses about the late origin of embroidery on shirts and the reasons for the variety of ornamentation, about the absence of the type of wide trousers sirwal (”sharovary”) as a component of Cossack clothing, etc., especially in the period of war. Denial of these myths is not an “infatuation with one’s own culture”, but a completely objective assessment of the fact that Ukrainians have created a rich and unique heritage of folk clothing, in particular embroidered and woven shirts with a variety of ornamental and color solutions within the regional and local traditions of the Carpathians, Polissia, Podillia, Bukovyna, Middle Over Dnipro Lands, Slobozhanshchyna, Southern Ukraine. Embroidery is one of the typical features of the regional complexes have been formed over a long period of time. The conclusions of Ya. Prylypko, that the areas of embroidery color on women’s folk shirts coincide with the general ethnographic zoning of Ukraine are of particular importance. In our opinion, the scholar’s concept of durability of the Ukrainian tradition and its connection with the ancient Ukrainian tribes has become the main reason for his dismissal and the cessation of work on the atlas. Because this is already an issue of cultural continuity of the Kyivan state, which is falsifying by Russia in the war of aggression. The area of distribution of wide pants with the name serouel («sharovary») on the atlas maps is important for refuting the objections of their wearing by the Cossacks. The research of the Cossacks’ attire, its kinds and types is still one of the most relevant tasks for the ethnologists, art studiers, historians, linguists.

Keywords

Ya. P. Prylypko is a founder of the clothing atlas of Ukraine, ethnic tradition, embroidered shirt, myths about the Cossacks’ clothing, saroual.

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