Articles include: the blend of Christian custom and village belief in magic, an examination of the role of the master craftsman in the pre-collectivization village, rituals tied to the Green Feast of Pentecost, Ukrainian dumy (heroic epics) as symbolic code in cultural transmission, the repression of civil society in the Stalinist period and the simultaneous construction of a "parallel culture" intended to replace it, the role and practices of master peasant icon makers, an interpretation of the work of the ethnologist Fedir Vovk, goldsmithing, customs connected to Easter, a description of the social role of orthodox monasteries in the eighteenth century, and book reviews.

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