SOCIAL EXISTENCIAL SEGMENTS OF MEMORY ABOUT ANCESTORS
SOCIAL EXISTENCIAL SEGMENTS OF MEMORY ABOUT ANCESTORS

Summary/Abstract: Due to the gaining of the independence by Ukraine, the reconsideration of historical narrative has been highlighted. Especially acute became the problem of national identity, the paramount part of which is its historic national identity. According to the French researcher Jacque le Hoff, “memory is basic part of what has recently been called individual or collective identity”, and the search for identity “is one of the main activities of contemporary units and societies”. The structural component of historic memory is ethnic historic memory which can be revealed in the memories about ancestors. In its turn the important part of the identity is the process of ethnization which is provided by intergenerational cultural transmission. The regional state peculiarities have a major impact on the formation of the memory pattern of Ukraine in general. Since Ukraine consists of several ethnic regions, that due tohistoric circumstances gained certain distinctive features, therefore beside overall state memory pattern, there are local ones. In domestic science we have only little information about issues related to the memories about ancestors, genetic cultural inheritance and local memory patterns, that is why the attempt to outline several memory segments about the ancestors based on hutzul ethnographical region is made in this survey.

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