Abstract
The article considers the existing options for classification and division into constituent elements of the wedding rite cycle. This practice is necessary for further creation of own structure of the Ukrainian wedding rite for its structural and functional research. In the process of studying, the selection of the most expedient and reasonable forms of division made by the predecessors is carried out. In particular, the division into three cycles of rites, which is popular for most modern research, the division into particular rites, known since the 70s of the XIX century, as well as the division of myths into mythemes, proposed by K. Levi-Strauss, which is quite acceptable for decomposition of the Ukrainian traditional wedding rites into episodes. The basis of the study is the use of own approaches to the decomposition of a large wedding cycle into three small cycles – pre-wedding, wedding and post-wedding; small cycles into particular rites (pre-wedding – matchmaking, engagement, viewing of the bride, torochyny, loaf making, hiltse; wedding – church wedding, redemption of the bride, untwisting braids, arrival of the bride to the groom’s apartment, komora; post-wedding – dowries, pereima, perezva); rites – into constituent episodes. As a result, 14 rites were received, which are divided into three small cycles: pre-wedding – 6 (1-6), wedding – 5 (7-11), post-wedding – 3 (12-14). Thus, it is possible to build a coherent and functional structure, which will be successfully used to study Ukrainian weddings within the introduction of the method of structural and functional analysis to identify the composition of rites, mediative actions and mediating characters, expanding chronotope and sacralization of reality when ritual actions, etc. Herewith, the way of studying the cycle of wedding ceremonies can be inductive – from episodes, through rites and small cycles to a complete cycle of cycles, and deductive – from a large cycle, through small cycles and particular rites to specific episodes. When using the deductive method of research, the units of analysis decrease, the inductive – increase and generalize.
Highlights
При цьому шлях дослідження циклу весільних обрядів може бути як індуктивним — від епізодів, через обряди й малі цикли до цілісного циклу циклів, так і дедуктивним – від великого циклу, через малі цикли та окремі обряди до конкретних епізодів
The article considers the existing options for classification and division into constituent elements of the wedding rite cycle. This practice is necessary for further creation of own structure of the Ukrainian wedding rite for its structural and functional research
The division into three cycles of rites, which is popular for most modern research, the division into particular rites, known since the 70s of the XIX century, as well as the division of myths into mythemes, proposed by K
Summary
Основу дослідження складає використання власних підходів до розкладення великого весільного циклу на три малі цикли – довесільний, весільний і післявесільний; малих циклів на окремі обряди (довесільний – сватання, заручини, оглядини, торочини, бгання короваю, гільце; весільний – вінчання, викуп молодої, розплітання коси, приїзд молодої до помешкання молодого, комора; післявесільний – приданки, перейма, перезва); обрядів – на складові епізоди. При цьому достатньо суттєвим моментом є можливість поєднати один з одним уже існуючі поділи українських весільних обрядів у рамках запропонованої новітньої структури, яка буде мати наукову перспективу й потенціал для подальших структурно-функціональних досліджень обрядового весільного циклу.
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