Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: In contrast to the past, when traditional clothes are worn mainly at celebrations regarding national, local or religious holidays, nowadays embroidered garments are often used to express one’s ethnic origin, worldview and willingness to keep elements of a given culture alive. On the territory of Ukraine such an element of the native traditional costume is the embroidered shirt – vishivanka. In the past, as an oberig (amulet), it is believed to protect against harm and diseases. Nowadays, it is seen as a means to express one’s ethnic and national identity. As such, it takes central place in new invented traditions – marches in embroidered shirts (since 2008) and the Day of the embroidered shirt (since 2006) – introduced by young Ukrainians to preserve Ukrainian values and folk costumes and rites. In the text are considered both new traditions, i.e. their origin, spread, characteristics in Ukraine as well as by the Ukrainian diaspora in Bulgaria. Empirical data has been gathered for the period of three years (2016-2018) by means of semi-structured interviews and virtual ethnography methods.
Source: Терени
Author: Tanya Matanova
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411610266