Natalie Kononenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 103836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Kononenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kononenko |
| SIGNATURE | KONONENKO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5161-9511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A roundtable on Natalie Kononenko’s Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies
Ukrainian Christmas traditions in Kazakhstan and Canada
Folklore consists of songs, stories, and ritual acts created by the people themselves. It is the most organic form of cultural expression. In this period when nations and their cultures are under attack, both folklorists and politicians look to folklore as a means of cultural preservation. Folklorists have recently started distinguishing folklore and heritage. Heritage comes to be emblematic of a culture and is used to assert cultural uniqueness.…
Encyclopedia of Coronavirus Rumors and Fakes
As a member of the Folklore Commission of the International Committee of Slavists, I am privileged to listen to the presentation of new research conducted in the countries of the Slavic world. On July 10, 2020, the Commission heard Nikita Petrov of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow present the Encyclopedia of Coronavirus Rumors andFakes. This website is run by Petrov, Aleksandra Arkhipova and…
Understanding the Uncanny
In addition to their own interpretation of Christianity, Old Believers in eastern Kazakhstan believe in spirits that link lived space to the people who occupy this space. These beliefs are expressed in personal narratives. The house spirit, or domovoi, is an anomalous creature connected to both the physical structure of the home and to the family that inhabits it. The spirit is of ambiguous gender. It supports religious actions such as blessing t…
Katheryn Dysa. Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials. Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries
Witchcraft trials in Ukraine have not received the same attention as trials in Western Europe. This is partially due to the limited amount of documentary evidence available. But it also seems to be a reflection of the fact the Ukrainian trials were not as sensational as what happened in the West. In fact, witchcraft in Ukraine was dealt with in a remarkably rational way for the time period in question. The use of torture to extract confessions wa…
Folklore in the Field, on the Internet, and in Literature
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Vernacular religion on the prairies
The study of vernacular religion looks at faith as it is lived and emphasizes praxis. Research conducted among Ukrainian Canadians living on the prairies shows that the location where beliefs are expressed plays a role in the relationship between individual religion, folk religion, and official religion. Vernacular religion is freely expressed in the home, while its expression within the confines of the church is constrained. Negotiation, sometim…
Ukraine Alive—A Teaching Website that Continues to Teach Its Creators
Ukraine Alive is a digital resource built to support elementary education and available at http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca. The site features contemporary cultural material from Ukraine and is rich in interactive units where students can explore content, play games, and perform tasks online. Google Analytics shows that Ukraine Alive (and its related Alive sites) are popular with teachers and used throughout Alberta and beyond. The creators of Ukr…
Schmiesing, Ann. Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Drawing the Iron Curtain
Soviet animation achieved a remarkable level of excellence, winning numerous international awards.In fact, Iurii Norshtein's Tale of Tales (Skazka skazok) was called the best animated film of all time.Jews were involved in the production of many of these outstanding works.Why were Jews so prominent in the field of Soviet animation?Were they conscious of their Jewish heritage and did they express their Jewish identity in their films?According to K…
Mykhailo Zubryts’kyi, Zibrani tvory i materialyu triokh tomakh (Collected Works and Materials in Three Volumes), Vol. 1
Fialkova, Larisa and Maria Yelenevskaya. In Search of the Self
With this book Fialkova and Yelenevskaya add yet another entry to their continued study of how migrs from the former Soviet Union make sense of their lives in new surroundings.As in their other books, the authors use the interviews that they conducted with project participants and online discussion forums where Russian-speaking newcomers share experiences and advice.In the last two chapters of the book they add a new dimension and work primarily …
The New Ukrainian Cookbook by Annette Ogrodnik Corona (review)
Reviewed by: The New Ukrainian Cookbook by Annette Ogrodnik Corona Natalie Kononenko Annette Ogrodnik Corona. The New Ukrainian Cookbook. New York: Hippocrene Books. 2012. xvii+ 270 pp. Index. Illustrations by Laurette Kovary. $29.95 hc. [End Page 376] The classic Ukrainian cookbook written in English has long been Savella Stechishin’s Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, first published in 1957. This book was extremely popular and went through eightee…
Exploring the Everyday
Exploring the Everyday:Three Books about the Objects and Practices of the Canadian Past Natalie Kononenko Fodchuk, Roman Paul. Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. 156 pp. Glossary, bibliography, index, color photos. $34.95 sc. Fleming, John A., and Michael Rowan; photographs, James A. Chambers. Canadian Folk Art to 1950. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Canadian Museum of Civili…
Collecting Ukrainian Heritage
Most discussions about collectors of folk art focus on financial issues, examining what makes an object valuable and worth collecting. But financial gain is not the primary motivation of all collectors. When it comes to folk art associated with heritage, collectors are driven by a desire to connect to a past. Often this is a past with which the collectors themselves had no direct contact, but one which they feel they need to understand in order t…
Alison Hilton. Russian Folk Art
The world of the senses, the look, feel, smell, taste, and sound of things, is getting more and more attention in contemporary scholarship as we realize that, to understand a people and their culture, it is important to appreciate their sensory world.This being the case, the reissue of Hilton's 1995 Russian Folk Art in paperback and in slightly modified form is most welcome.The book begins with a brief history of the study of folk art.This is fol…
Corona, Annette Ogrodnik. The New Ukrainian Cookbook
The development of technology in radiolink networks has grown rapidly and is suitable to be implemented on wide coverage area networks, but weather and physical environment factors greatly affect signal conditions. The background that has been stated, this study proposes migration to fiber optic access media because it is able to send data faster and is not affected by electromagnetic interference and is stable. Furthermore, this study conducted …
Groupsourcing Folklore Sound Files
Digital technologies make possible new ways of managing folklore field recordings. Two programmers, a graduate student, and the author developed a database that allows the user to go directly to the point in a sound file where a particular topic is discussed. This is a research tool and the task here was to create a modified site for the general public. The technique used was crowdsourcing, asking the public to transcribe and translate songs, sto…
Колосова, Валерия Борисовна. Лексика и символика славянской народной ботаники . [Kolosova, Valeriia Borisovna. The Lexicon and the Symbolism of Slavic Folk Botany ]
Folklorica 2011
Ukrainian Folklore in Kazakhstan
Pavlodar is on the other side of the earth -quite literally. There is a 12 hour time difference between Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where I live and Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, where I spent a month of my summer. Thus when it is 6AM in Edmonton, it is 6PM in Pavlodar. Getting to Pavlodar takes a full day. I left on the evening of June 15 and, had I made all my connections, I would have arrived on the morning of June 17. Coming home, my travel time, with…
Retrospective
to write about their involvement with SEEFA, the Slavic and East European Folklore Association, and with its journal, now called Folklorica, because this is my last year as the journal's editor.As I pass the journal on, it seems fitting to take a look back.My own involvement with folklore probably dates back to my childhood.Much of it had to do with listening to my mother and my grandfather tell me stories.Some of their stories were traditional a…
The Politics of innocence
Disney did not have a monopoly on using animated folklore films for marketing purposes. During the heyday of Soviet animation in the 1970s and 1980s, cartoons that seemed to follow folktales were altered slightly to convey messages in keeping with Soviet ideology. They not only criticized capitalism, but also depicted women as sexless and selfsacrificing, and urged cooperation, neighborliness, and non violence. National minorities within the Sovi…
“Le chemin, la route, la voie” (The road, the route, the path). Conference sponsored by the Slavic Studies Center at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
dans la littrature et la civilisation russe," (The path, the road, the way in Russian
Borat the Trickster
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) elicits extreme and contradictory audience responses. Some filmgoers find it amusing and clever, while others consider it repulsive, even obscene. Analyzing the film's hero as a traditional and archetypical trickster figure, a master of contradictions, a violator of boundaries, can help explain audience reaction. But while traditional folklore tricksters ac…
Groupsourcing Folklore Sound Files
Digital technologies make possible new ways of managing folklore field recordings. Two programmers, a graduate student, and the author developed a database that allows the user to go directly to the point in a sound file where a particular topic is discussed. This is a research tool and the task here was to create a modified site for the general public. The technique used was crowdsourcing, asking the public to transcribe and translate songs, sto…
Ukrainian Christmas traditions in Kazakhstan and Canada
Folklore consists of songs, stories, and ritual acts created by the people themselves. It is the most organic form of cultural expression. In this period when nations and their cultures are under attack, both folklorists and politicians look to folklore as a means of cultural preservation. Folklorists have recently started distinguishing folklore and heritage. Heritage comes to be emblematic of a culture and is used to assert cultural uniqueness.…
Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine
The Influence of the Orthodox Church on Ukrainian Dumy
Dumy, the oral epic songs of Ukraine, like other heroic poetries, have a military subject matter. One duma cycle tells of battles with the Turks and Tatars in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries; another sings of the Khmel'nyts'kyi uprising against the Poles that began in 1648. In addition to the expected narratives about armed conflict, the duma tradition also contains a group of songs, usually called the cycle about everyday life, that deals…
Tradicionnye formuly russkoj narodnoj neobrjadovoj liriki (Issledovanie po estetike ustno-poeticeskogo kanona
Ukrainian Documentaries
Strike Now and Ask Questions Later Witchcraft Stories in Ukraine
Ukrainian witchcraft beliefs, as attested in materials collected by the author and in stories recorded in the early part of this century by Volodymyr Hnatiuk, serve many functions. They alleviate tensions between neighbors over property, especially foodstuffs such as milk, explaining why one villager has more milk than another or why someone suffers a sudden drop in milk production. By providing a vehicle for victim-blaming, especially in failed …
Ukrainian Minstrels
This book addresses the historical and contemporary involvement of Chinese Americans from diverse walks of life in U.S.-China relations. The contributors present new evidence and fresh perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar national and transnational networks - including families, businesspersons, community newspapers, students, lobbyists, philanthropists, and scientists - and consider the likely future impact of such contacts on the most import…
Vampires in the Carpathians. Magical Acts, Rites, and Beliefs in Subcarpathian Rus
Describes in detail the traditions and beliefs of the people of Subcarpathian Rus' - traditions which have been handed down, generation to generation, for hundreds of years. The text discusses the rites of the 14 celebrations in the annual church calendar, from Christmas and the Epiphany to Lent and Easter. There are detailed descriptions of the festivals on the occasions of births, baptisms, weddings and funerals. Also explored are Rusyn beliefs…
Ukrainian Minstrels
The Word and Wax
Russkii detskii fol'klor i detskaia mifologiia
Go I Know Not Where; Bring Back I Know Not What
Azeri Folksong
Conjuring Hope
Ukrainian Ballads in Canada
Folklore is the artistic expression of belief. The various forms of folklore change and adapt to reflect changing circumstances and changing views of the world. When Ukrainians came to Canada, they brought their folklore, ballads included, with them. In the new land, ballads helped voice the struggles of the Ukrainian Pioneers. Examining a collection of ballads made approximately sixty years after Ukrainians began arriving on the Prairies shows t…
Borat the Trickster
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) elicits extreme and contradictory audience responses. Some filmgoers find it amusing and clever, while others consider it repulsive, even obscene. Analyzing the film's hero as a traditional and archetypical trickster figure, a master of contradictions, a violator of boundaries, can help explain audience reaction. But while traditional folklore tricksters ac…
Folksongs and Folk Revival
Reviewed by: Folksongs and Folk Revival: The Cultural Politics of Kenneth Peacock’s Songs of the Newfoundland Outports Natalie Kononenko Anna Kearney Guigne. Folksongs and Folk Revival: The Cultural Politics of Kenneth Peacock’s Songs of the Newfoundland Outports. St. John’s, NFLD: ISER Books, 2008. 331 pp. Maps. Photographs. Endnotes. Bibliography. Audiography. List of compositions. Index. $29.95 sc. I first ran across Kenneth Peacock’s name whe…
“Le chemin, la route, la voie” (The road, the route, the path). Conference sponsored by the Slavic Studies Center at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
dans la littrature et la civilisation russe," (The path, the road, the way in Russian
Vladimir S. Kliaus. Traditsionnaia kul'tura starobriadtsev (semeiskikh) Zabaikal'ia . CD-ROM
Vladimir S. Kliaus.Traditsionnaia kul'tura starobriadtsev (semeiskikh) Zabaikal'ia.CD-Rom
How God Paired Men and Women
Religious stories told by Ukrainian women who are active in the revival of village churches seem to be coded protestations against gender inequality. Examination of the narratives in context reveals that they are a way of coping with a shift in authority from civil to religious. Also important is performance. Women feel deprived because they no longer act as celebrants of religious rites, especially funerals and baptisms
Ukrainian Folklore Conference in Kyiv for Young Scholars
S NATIONS with the following subtopics emphasized:Ethnocultural parallels between the nations of Western and Eastern Europe Traditional ethnic culture of the Slavs Ethnic processes and the problem of ethnic identity preservation National minorities and the problem of ethnic identity preservation Problems of Europe's nations traditional cultural preservationThe sponsors of the conference are:The Kyiv Taras Shevchenko
Deborah Cahalen Schneider. Being Goral
Zywiec, a town in the Goral region of Poland, is the location of a large annual folk festival that showcases Goral music and dance, as well as Goral crafts.It attracts tourists and folk performers from Europe and beyond.But the folklore of this region is not what interests Schneider and she does not cite the work of Cooley on Goral music (Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians.Indiana University Press, …
Notes from the Workshop on Field Work in the Former USSR (Aatseel Conference, 1997)
Panel Report
During the Soviet era, foreign scholars were restricted to working in cities
Ukrainian Village Weddings; Collected in Central Ukraine, 1998
The Ukrainian village wedding is a complex affair with many important functions. It cements the union between the bride and the groom, establishing them as a new unit which will help perpetuate not only their respective families, but the whole village. The wedding contains fertility symbols to insure that the couple will bear children. It serves to honor the parents who reared the young people about to wed. Just as the wedding serves many functio…
Folklore Conference in Ukraine
The Kyiv based Center for the Study of Oral History and Culture, the journal Rodovid, and the Cherkasy Ethnographic Museum invite you to take part in an international conference in Cherkasy, Ukraine as well as to conduct fieldwork (if you so wish) in central Ukraine in August 1998
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