Gli albori del folklore ucraino. Antecedenti e primi passi di un’etnografia alla ricerca delle comuni e antiche radici del popolo ucraino

Abstract

This article discusses the main stages that have marked theorigin and the development of the various Anthropological disciplines inUkraine. From the seventeen-century onwards, several texts containingthe notes of the foreign travellers on the Ukrainian territories and theirinhabitants started to be discovered. Furthermore, over the next two centuries,the Ukrainian lands became the focus of study not only for Ukrainianscholars, geographers and linguists, but also for poets and painters, who oftenenjoyed adding ethnographic nuances to their stories. A crucial contributionwas also provided by different institutions, namely universities, scientificsocieties and amateur associations, for which the interest in the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines became stronger and even more evident.

Keywords

• ethnography, explorations, national identity, ukraine, lviv, kharkiv, kiev