Svitlana Kukharenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svitlana Kukharenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svitlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kukharenko |
| SIGNATURE | KUKHARENKO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Animals Crossing
In many parts of the world one encounters a disapprobation of living beings, either animals or humans, walking, jumping, or otherwise crossing a corpse.Nearly as widespread as aversion to the act is one supposed consequence: the corpse is believed to become reanimated.Drawing on a variety of cases, this article describes the distribution of the idea both in ritual practice and myth and establishes its fundamental form.Consideration is given to ho…
Traditional Ukrainian Folk Beliefs about Death and the Afterlife
In contemporary Ukraine, there exist various memorials that mark places of tragic death. These can be found on any road in large numbers. They can also be found elsewhere, including in city centers. To understand this phenomenon it is necessary to examine Ukrainian attitudes towards death. The most complete descriptions of folk beliefs about death date from the late 19th century. In Ukrainian culture death was viewed as a natural and integral par…
Христофорова, Ольга. Колдуны и жертвы
Because she is writing on the sensitive topic of contemporary mythological thinking, the author starts with the disclaimer that she does not believe in sorcery, omens, the evil eye, or curses.While she herself may not believe, the author tries to stay unbiased towards her informants and to accept at face value the beliefs of the people whose lives revolve around magical phenomena.Khristoforova's monograph is based on her extensive fieldwork condu…
Olexandra Britsyna and Inna Golovakha. Prozovyi fol’klor sela Ploske na Chernigivschiny (teksti ta rozvidki) (Prose Folklore of Ploske, a Village in Chernihivshchyna (Texts and Analysis))
Красиков, Михайло (ред.), М.Ф. Сумцов
The bibliography of his (known) works contains 1544 entries, yet many of his writings vanished in the chaos of the 20 th century.This collection is dedicated to the 155 th anniversary of this outstanding person whose works are widely used nowadays by Slavic folklorists and ethnographers.In his introductory article, [The Grateful Son of the Sloboda Region] Krasykov presents the details of Sumtsov's biography: his family, education, and his becomin…
Michael D. Bailey. Magic and Superstition in Europe
Magic intrigues and fascinates not only folklorists but scholars from other disciplines.As a broadly defined phenomenon, magic allows numerous approaches and various interpretations.In his new book, Michael D. Bailey presents a comprehensive historical overview of magic.Magic's shifting definition is quite problematic, and Bailey looks at both magic and superstition as overlapping, but not identical, categories.He presents magic as an integral pa…
Animal Magic
(1) Ukraine is predominantly an agrarian country with livestock production being the second most important occupation of the villagers. The repetitive upheavals of the 20th century -civil and world wars, revolution, the mass collectivization of 1928-1933, the artificial Great Famine that took the lives of about seven million Ukrainians, village uprisings, and mass resettlements introduced major changes to the traditional peasant world outlook.(2)…
Worobec, Christine D. Possessed
Several years after its appearance in 2001, Worobec's monograph still remains a solid multidisciplinary study on a problem that Russian authorities, both Church and secular, have struggled with for centuries.Klikushi, or shriekers, were mostly women who believed they were victims of black magic, possessed by evil beings who made them convulse, shriek in non-human voices, and do other abnormal things in the presence of holy objects.Klikushestvo wa…
Negotiating Magic
Magical efficacy has been important in Ukrainian wedding ritual. The korovai, rushnyk, omens, gifts, the showering of the couple, and other “sacred” objects and acts of the Ukrainian folk wedding are believed to be imbued with prophetic qualities. Uprooted folklore tradition, however, faces inevitable transformations, and Ukrainian immigrants in Canada tend to know and believe in magical objects and actions significantly less. The examination of …
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…
Animals Crossing
In many parts of the world one encounters a disapprobation of living beings, either animals or humans, walking, jumping, or otherwise crossing a corpse.Nearly as widespread as aversion to the act is one supposed consequence: the corpse is believed to become reanimated.Drawing on a variety of cases, this article describes the distribution of the idea both in ritual practice and myth and establishes its fundamental form.Consideration is given to ho…
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…
Negotiating Magic
Magical efficacy has been important in Ukrainian wedding ritual. The korovai, rushnyk, omens, gifts, the showering of the couple, and other “sacred” objects and acts of the Ukrainian folk wedding are believed to be imbued with prophetic qualities. Uprooted folklore tradition, however, faces inevitable transformations, and Ukrainian immigrants in Canada tend to know and believe in magical objects and actions significantly less. The examination of …
Negotiating Magic
Magical efficacy has been important in Ukrainian wedding ritual. The korovai, rushnyk, omens, gifts, the showering of the couple, and other “sacred” objects and acts of the Ukrainian folk wedding are believed to be imbued with prophetic qualities. Uprooted folklore tradition, however, faces inevitable transformations, and Ukrainian immigrants in Canada tend to know and believe in magical objects and actions significantly less. The examination of …
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…
Olexandra Britsyna and Inna Golovakha. Prozovyi fol’klor sela Ploske na Chernigivschiny (teksti ta rozvidki) (Prose Folklore of Ploske, a Village in Chernihivshchyna (Texts and Analysis))
Красиков, Михайло (ред.), М.Ф. Сумцов
The bibliography of his (known) works contains 1544 entries, yet many of his writings vanished in the chaos of the 20 th century.This collection is dedicated to the 155 th anniversary of this outstanding person whose works are widely used nowadays by Slavic folklorists and ethnographers.In his introductory article, [The Grateful Son of the Sloboda Region] Krasykov presents the details of Sumtsov's biography: his family, education, and his becomin…
Michael D. Bailey. Magic and Superstition in Europe
Magic intrigues and fascinates not only folklorists but scholars from other disciplines.As a broadly defined phenomenon, magic allows numerous approaches and various interpretations.In his new book, Michael D. Bailey presents a comprehensive historical overview of magic.Magic's shifting definition is quite problematic, and Bailey looks at both magic and superstition as overlapping, but not identical, categories.He presents magic as an integral pa…
Animal Magic
(1) Ukraine is predominantly an agrarian country with livestock production being the second most important occupation of the villagers. The repetitive upheavals of the 20th century -civil and world wars, revolution, the mass collectivization of 1928-1933, the artificial Great Famine that took the lives of about seven million Ukrainians, village uprisings, and mass resettlements introduced major changes to the traditional peasant world outlook.(2)…
Worobec, Christine D. Possessed
Several years after its appearance in 2001, Worobec's monograph still remains a solid multidisciplinary study on a problem that Russian authorities, both Church and secular, have struggled with for centuries.Klikushi, or shriekers, were mostly women who believed they were victims of black magic, possessed by evil beings who made them convulse, shriek in non-human voices, and do other abnormal things in the presence of holy objects.Klikushestvo wa…
Traditional Ukrainian Folk Beliefs about Death and the Afterlife
In contemporary Ukraine, there exist various memorials that mark places of tragic death. These can be found on any road in large numbers. They can also be found elsewhere, including in city centers. To understand this phenomenon it is necessary to examine Ukrainian attitudes towards death. The most complete descriptions of folk beliefs about death date from the late 19th century. In Ukrainian culture death was viewed as a natural and integral par…
Христофорова, Ольга. Колдуны и жертвы
Because she is writing on the sensitive topic of contemporary mythological thinking, the author starts with the disclaimer that she does not believe in sorcery, omens, the evil eye, or curses.While she herself may not believe, the author tries to stay unbiased towards her informants and to accept at face value the beliefs of the people whose lives revolve around magical phenomena.Khristoforova's monograph is based on her extensive fieldwork condu…
Animals Crossing
In many parts of the world one encounters a disapprobation of living beings, either animals or humans, walking, jumping, or otherwise crossing a corpse.Nearly as widespread as aversion to the act is one supposed consequence: the corpse is believed to become reanimated.Drawing on a variety of cases, this article describes the distribution of the idea both in ritual practice and myth and establishes its fundamental form.Consideration is given to ho…
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