About the yearbook

Founders: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology

Publisher: M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology

Creation Date: 1995

Media identifier in the Register of Entities in the Field of Media Registrants: R30-05707 of 28.11.2024 no. 3171

History of the yearbook: “Materials to Ukrainian Ethnology” is a scientific yearbook published in 1928–1930 (3 issues in total) by the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. The publication was renewed in 1995 at the initiative of the head of the department “Ukrainian Ethnological Center” of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Hanna Skrypnyk (chief editor) with the aim of continuing the tradition of academic ethnological science of the 1920s, aimed at popularizing objective ethnographic knowledge and unbiased views on the history and culture of the Ukrainians.

Scope: The scientific yearbook highlights the problems of ethnoculture and methods of its research, preservation and transmission in the post-industrial information space. In the first renewed collection – issue 1(4) – topical problems regarding the origin and ethnic history of the Ukrainian people, the formation of its ethnic lands, the historical and ethnographic zoning of Ukraine were raised; the features of the ethnopsychological identity of Ukrainians, the modern state of the nation's national self-awareness is disclosed. In the following issues, research on ethnic and intercultural interaction in the spheres of history and culture is presented, regional features of household culture in the border areas of settlement, new aspects of study and modern forms of presentation of material culture, spirituality in the context of broadcasting ethnic tradition are highlighted; problems of national self-determination and identification in the modern world are raised; studies of Ukrainian ethnoculture abroad are presented. In the special issues, domestic ethnology is represented in names; topical issues of Ukrainian ethnology in the light of the scientific heritage of P. Chubynskyi, F. Vovk, E. Spaska, V. Kravchenko, etc. were considered and analyzed; the issue of material and spiritual semantics in the ethno-cultural context, ethnic identification against the background of modern globalization processes and ethno-cultural interactions is raised.

ISSN: 2313-8505

DOI of the yearbook: https://doi.org/10.15407/mue

Branch of science: historical (specialty 032 History and archaeology)

Category: “B” (Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine no. 349 dated 24.02.2025)

The periodical is included in the Register of Scientific Publications of Ukraine, in which the results of dissertations for obtaining the scientific degrees of PhD, Candidate and Doctor of Historical Sciences (specialty 032 History and archaeology) may be published.

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Periodicity: 1 issue per year

Languages of Publication: Ukrainian, English

Editor-in-Chief: Stishova Nataliia Serhiivna – a PhD in History, a senior researcher, an acting director of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6577-2325

Deputy of Editor-in-Chief: Bondarenko Halyna Borysivna – a Ph.D. in History, a head of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre 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/0000-0003-3448-494X

Editorial Board:

Balushok Vasyl Hryhorovych – a Ph.D. in History, a senior research fellow of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre 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/0000-0003-1362-8270;
Bekh MykolaVasyliovych – a Ph.D. in History, a senior research fellow of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre 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/0000-0002-4186-1339;
Borysenko Valentyna Kyrylivna – a Doctor of History, a professor, a head of the Archival Scientific Funds of Manuscripts and Audio-Recordings Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-2363;
Demski Dagnoslaw – a Doctor of History, a professor, a head of the Center of Ethnology and Modern Anthropology of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3977-0294;
Engelking Anna – a Doctor of Philology, a professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3225-8084;
Ivanytskyi Anatolii Ivanovych– a doctor of Art Studies, a professor, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1991-5679;
Kozhukhar Viktor Hryhorovych – a Doctor of History, a chief of the Ukrainians’ Ethnology Group of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-049X;
Kozhukhar Kateryna Serhiyivna – a Doctor of Pedagogics, a senior research fellow of the Ukrainians’ Ethnology Group of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8272-9940;
Koliastruk Olha Anatoliyivna – a Doctor of History, a professor, a head of the Department of Culture, Methods of Teaching History and Special Historical Disciplines, Faculty of History of M. Kotsyubynskyi Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University (Vinnytsia, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-5868;
Kosakivskyi Viktor Afanasiyovych– a Ph.D. in History, associate professor of the Department of Culture, Methods of Teaching History and Special Historical Disciplines, Faculty of History of M. Kotsyubynskyi Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University (Vinnytsia, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-5539;
Kurochkin Oleksandr Volodymyrovych – a Doctor of History, a professor (Kyiv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3365-7266;
Kushnir Viyacheslav Hryhorovych – a Doctor of History, a professor, a dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy of I. Mechnykov Odesa National University (Odesa, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3058-3019;
Pavlyuk Stepan Petrovych – a Doctor of History, a professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a director of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-8099;
Rendyuk Teofil Heorhiyovych – a Doctor of History, a chief research fellow of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre 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/0009-0000-1361-0316;
Serhiichuk Volodymyr Ivanovych – a Doctor of History, a professor, a chief research fellow of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine);
Skliar Volodymyr Mykolaiovych – a Doctor of History, a professor, a chief research fellow of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre 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/0000-0003-0020-5973;
Sobol Valentyna – a Doctor of Philology, a professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies of the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0484-6874;
Sopolyha Myroslav Dmytrovych – a Doctor of History, a professor (Svidnik, Slovakia). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-8006;
Stelmashchuk Halyna Hryhorivna – a Doctor of Art Studies, a professor, Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5607-4936;
Fialkova Larysa – a Ph.D. in Philology, an associate professor, a professor of the University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4817-8081;
Hristov Petko – a Doctor of History, a senior research fellow of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3589-4668.

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