Paradigma piznannya: gumanitarni pytannya

5-16

Authors: I. Svidruk, Y. Myronov

The level of creative activity of the scientific sector of the Ukrainian economic system using the system of indicators suggested by the EBRD for analyzing the development of the knowledge economy has been researched. The strengths of the functioning of the scientific sector of the economy are identified: self-financing of scientific organizations, increase of financing of the scientific branch with the help of public sector organizations and educational organizations. Problems are outlined: reduction of allocation of scientific researches from budget sources of financing, high share of foreign financing, risks of permanent dependence of national science. It is shown that financial flows are often not related to the quality of research work. The imperfection of institutional provision complicates the grant support for scientific projects. The necessity of integration of national science with the European research space is proved.

26-36

Authors: T. Okolnycha

In the article the author, on the basis of generalization of ethnographic materials of the 19th - first quarter of the 20th centuries, has analyzed the toys of the Eastern Slavic children. The publication suggests that there were very few special toys for the Eastern Slavic children. The publication deals with toys for toddlers and toys for boys and girls from 5 to 6 years of age, which they made for themselves for fun. The Eastern Slavic boys had the most widespread homemade toys of wood, pine bark, dandelion, hips, chickpeas, cane (houshold utility: little boats, taradaiki, little carts, little mills); girls had a doll.

53-64

Authors: A. I. Iliadi

The paper deals with the etymological analysis of two compound words which are attested in Serbian and Croatian anthroponymy: Serb. Odribog and Croat. Odribožić. The form of these anthroponyms is trivial for Slavonic compound words with the component *bogъ, but Odribog and Odribožić seem to be ideologically isolated from other similar names, being borrowed from the Iranian vocabulary. Presumably above mentioned personal names reflect Iran. *Tīrī-baga- or *Ātr-baga-. The particularity of personal names, reviewed here, is that they can be qualified with high degree of certainty as going back to a Western Iranian source (the version of reflection in these names of Western Iranian *Ādar-bag). Probably this source could be the vocabulary of a Western Iranian ethnic group, which intruded to the Balkans, being a part of Bulgarian union of tribes.

73-85

Authors: O. Kukharenko

In the proposed by the author structure of the cycle of traditional Ukrainian maternity rites, each of them is divided into constituent elements – episodes, and is polyepisodic or polyelemental. The defined criteria for division are: new level, generalizing repetition of the event; material and spiritual metamorphosis of the characters of sacred action; change of sacral chronotope; principle of constant vivification. By the example of the rite of delivery, a composition and antinomies were established, change and expansion of the chronotope and the level of sacralization, which expands when entering the rite and curtails leaving it, are investigated; examples of characters-mediators’ actions and mediation episodes are given. Such approach, using the structural and functional method, provides a broad perspective for further research regarding the traditional folk rites of the family cycle and in particular the cycle of maternity rites.