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number 1 / 1991

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The premier issue of Rodovid begins with a brief editorial from the publisher, Lidia Lykhach, on the significance of family heritage and cultural history. Anatolii Petropavlovs'kyi from the town Kaniv pulled out of the waters of the Dnipro more than 15,000 items of ancient Slavic culture. Much of this collection is museum quality and derives from the period of Ky¿v-Rus, as described in the article in this issue. There is also a discussion of the work of Pavlo Chubyns'kyi, one of the most important ethnographers in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. More than 120 years ago he published seven volumes of ethnographic material. Today this material is of the greatest value to cultural historians. There are also these articles:
- an ethnographic description of life in the village Popivka, by Borys Pysanka
- a discussion of "famine in folklore," by Vasyl' Pakharenko
- Halyna Kornienko provides transcriptions of songs she collected in fieldwork in villages in the Cherkasy region
- ethnomusicologist William Noll provides a description of elderly village instrumental musicians and their art
- Mykola Kornienko discusses the significance of ornaments on oxen yokes
- Serhii Kryvenko provides an historical sketch of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Cherkasy region

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