FEATURES FAMILY RITUALS LVIV CITIZENS OF THE 20-BEGINNING OF THE 21 CENTURIES Cover Image

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ РОДИННОЇ ОБРЯДОВОСТІ ЛЬВІВ’ЯН В КІН. ХХ – ПОЧ. ХХІ ст.
FEATURES FAMILY RITUALS LVIV CITIZENS OF THE 20-BEGINNING OF THE 21 CENTURIES

Author(s): N. Chaban
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Видавництво «Одеський національний університет І. І. Мечникова»
Keywords: everyday life; family ritual; townspeople; peasants; family; youth; premarital intercourse; civil marriage; church; Lviv

Summary/Abstract: The article examines circumstances and practising of family rituals in daily life in Lviv in the 20th and early 21th Century. We analyzed how migration processes influenced the culture of the city and found changes in family rituals influenced by cultures of other countries. In the article the peculiarities of young people choosing forms of marriage and attitudes Lviv citizens to civil marriage as a form of relationship between a man and a woman.The partial representation of everyday life as an element of the national integrity and identity leads to attempts to describe and track changes in the lives of citizens upon the beginning of the XXI century.The objective involves discovering the customary law in a modern Ukrainian family, exploring household activities. These elements of life cannot be imagined without the customs and rituals that have a direct impact on the environment in which they have their place.Based on field research, the analysis was made as to what ceremonies the XX century kept intact, what new cultural and spiritual heritage it formed, what of the past is preserved in our days and what is not.The wedding town rituals and how they differ from the traditional ones are highlighted in their entirety.The author examines the cases that are peculiar to Lviv and which are accounted for by the multinational nature of the city. A descriptive method that was used gives the representation of the state of modern urban family with its way of life, social and domestic problems and the struggle for life, a continuous race that has not left any place and time for ethics, spirituality, culture, wisdom or morality, which was the reason for leveling the traditions. The make-up and perception of reality is changing due to the impact of globalization, the development of technology and science, political and religious changes, the influence of other cultures on all aspects of life in Ukraine.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 178-196
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Ukrainian