Traditional Culture of the Ukrainian People in the Scientific Heritage of Zenon Kuzelya: Historiography Cover Image

ТРАДИЦІЙНА КУЛЬТУРА УКРАЇНСЬКОГО НАРОДУ В НАУКОВІЙ СПАДЩИНІ ЗЕНОНА КУЗЕЛІ: ІСТОРІОГРАФІЯ
Traditional Culture of the Ukrainian People in the Scientific Heritage of Zenon Kuzelya: Historiography

Author(s): Rostyslav Mykhaylovych Konta, Mykola Kozlov
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: Zenon Kuzelya; culturology; ethnography; ethnology; folklore; Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of Research. The article covers the problem of the research in the historiography of the scientificheritage of the Ukrainian scientist-ethnographer Zenon Kuzelya and his contribution to the study of the traditional culture of the Ukrainian people. Methodology. The methods of historiographic analysis and synthesis, criticism of historiographic sources, problem-chronological, retrospective and comparative methods were widely used. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty reveals in the systematization of works, which concern traditional culture and life of Ukrainians, as well as the theoretical foundations of ethnographic research of the scientist. Conclusions. The historiographic assessments of the scientific heritage of Zenon Kuzelya in the field of studying the traditional culture of the Ukrainian people are rather ambiguous. On the other hand, many of the ethnological and cultural problems of the scientific heritage of Z. Kuzelya remain open.