Українська традиційна лялька як носій етнічності у сучасній культурі
Ukrainian traditional doll as a carrier of ethnicity in contemporary culture

Summary/Abstract: The publication analyzes the traditional dolls late XX – early XXI century as a carrier of ethnicity. The article highlights the issue of ethnicity research directions traditional Ukrainian doll from the standpoint of cultural studies, first highlighted the main features of traditional dolls as a carrier of ethnicity. At the turn of the century are witnessing processes of identity assertion Ukrainian people by exploring the historical, ethnographic and folklore attractions. We have researched the collection of traditional toys that are represented in the State Museum of Toys in Kyiv, private collections, exhibits national exhibitions of arts and crafts, and analyzed the data entered puppeteers in our questionnaire. Today, folk art, including traditional doll phenomenon as a cultural phenomenon that is the focus of many experts and researchers: art historians, anthropologists, philosophers, historians, educators, specialists in children's toys collectors. However, most of them studied one aspect dolls. To some extent, this issue has been described in the scientific literature courtesy of A. Morozov and M. Mishina, but the analysis of these studies gives an overview of the phenomenon of ethnicity doll as a carrier, so the question arose as to highlight the main features of traditional dolls as a carrier of ethnicity, as Ukrainian folk dolls – the result of centuries of spiritual formation process of Ukrainian culture. Ethnicity – a system of relations that combines carrier ethnic features of their ethnic environment. The purpose of the article – to explore the contradictions features traditional folk dolls end of XX – beginning of XXI century, as the bearer of ethnicity in socio-cultural environment in Ukraine due to the increasing attention to it in the modern culture, identifying the main characteristics of traditional dolls as a carrier of ethnicity. In this article, we investigated the doll as a carrier of ethnicity and attempted to highlight its main features. Category "etnichnichnist" analyzed and interpreted from different scientific fields who study culture. Some of the researchers interpret "ethnicity" as the process of identifying the individual and group identity, the latter – as a special form of existence of ethnic communities, and others – such as features that appear only in comparison with the characteristics of other ethnic communities. It should also be noted positive motifs among the masters of traditional dolls are models which reproduced the old archaic types of dolls. This phenomenon is called historical and cultural restoration. In this area is valuable for us to sample collector of folk dolls L. Orlova , can be seen at the State Museum of Toys ( Kyiv). Such restoration spends with his students and author of the study, including traditional dolls node, that helps promote traditional folk doll as relevant question dissemination of knowledge about the real traditional doll: its form and proportion, materials, decoration. Introduction to traditional folk doll, promotion and classifying it as a real traditional Ukrainian national identity can store in today's globalization. Traditional folk doll late twentieth – early XXI century can be classified into the following three types: • authentic – historical type dolls ( endangered ); • Similar to traditional – designed by repetition of shapes, ornaments, composite solutions, but they do not make those functions; • stylized or artistic copyrights traditional dolls – dolls with elements that indicate their similarity to traditional folk dolls. Thus, the phenomenon doll in culturological space has a deep relationship with the artistic tradition of toys in Ukraine. However, it can be argued that: 1. Interest in traditional folk dolls happening at a time when there is a need for knowledge about the traditions and culture. 2. Traditional doll as a carrier of ethnicity in contemporary culture is one of the important factors that shape patterns of national consciousness. The main features of traditional puppets as a medium of ethnicity is: • innocence, expressed in simple forms that indicate the refinement of taste and subtle mind Ukrainian; • Communications traditions to create a doll with a specific ethno-social unit; • touch with family traditions and rituals. It should be noted that in the puppet craft a substitution of concepts, resulting in the filing of folk puppets of other ethnic groups as traditional Ukrainian folk dolls. That is why the prospect of research is seen in the analysis of reconstructed forms and traditional dolls to familiarize the public with authentic traditional doll that is a carrier of national culture and ethnicity expression Ukrainian mentality. Introduction to traditional folk doll, promotion and classifying it as a real traditional Ukrainian national identity can store in today's globalization and multiculturalism.

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