Slavic elements in the calendar rites of the Romanians of Bukovina

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https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v5i2.23625

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calendar rites, Bukovyna, Romanians оf Bukovyna, acculturation, Slavic elements

Abstract

This study is aimed at identifying the most noticeable Slavic elements in the calendar rites of Bukovyna. It analyzes material collected by Romanian researchers in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century (E. Niculiță-Voronca, T. Pamfile, L. Bodnărescu, А. Fochi, A. Zașciuc), documents from the Central Scientific Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, the New Linguistic Atlas of Romania, Moldova and Bukovyna (1987), as well as personal observations recorded by the authors of the study in Ukraine and Romania during ethnographic expeditions. In the calendar rites of the Romanians of Bukovyna, some clear Slavic elements can be identified, such as some names of calendar holidays, Ukrainian elements in such rites as koliada, the Christmas star, shchedruvannya. Ukrainian motifs of musical folklore in winter rites, as well as the use of the names of Ukrainian opryshky and haidamaky, the adaptation of the “walking with vertep”, the use of the term vidma of Ukrainian origin, the penetration of the name and main text of the Ukrainian Malanka, etc.

Author Biographies

Antoniy Moysey, Bukovinian State Medical University, Ukraine

Antoniy Moysey – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Ukrainian Studies at Bukovinian State Medical University, editor of the Ukrainian-Romanian scientific journal Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine. Among his scientific interests are the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture, traditional culture of the population of Bukovyna, mutual influence in the sphere of traditional culture of the Ukrainian and East-Roman population of Bukovyna, processes of ethno-cultural identity in the border regions. He is the author of more than 220 scientific works, including 7 monographs.

Antonina Anistratenko, Bukovinian State Medical University, Ukraine

Antonina Anistratenko – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences and Ukrainian Studies, Bukovinian State Medical University. Among her research interests are the modern art process in Ukraine and Europe, literary anthropology, the cultural impact of fiction on social life. She is an author of 120 scientific publications, including 5 monographs, 2 textbooks.

Tetyana Nykyforuk, Bukovinian State Medical University, Ukraine

Tetyana Nykyforuk – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor in the Department of Social sciences and Ukrainian Studies in Bukovinian State Medical University. She is the author of over 80 scientific and methodological articles and executive editor of the Ukrainian-Romanian scientific journal Current Issues of Social Studies and History of Medicine. Her scientific research interests include the creation of poetry and poetics of S. Vorobkevych’s verses, and teaching of Ukrainian language as a foreign language.

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2022-05-15

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Moysey, A., Anistratenko, A. ., & Nykyforuk, T. . (2022). Slavic elements in the calendar rites of the Romanians of Bukovina. Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 5(2), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v5i2.23625

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies

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