Daria Antsybor

Ph.D.

Description of the field of scientific research:

Daria researches wartime humor, Chornobyl folklore, epidemic folklore, Maidan folklore, anthropology of dreams, anthropology of gift-giving and treats, and gastronomic urban legends.

List of duties:

Daria is a folklorist, anthropologist, and science popularizer. As a researcher at the SCCFRCC, she works on expeditions, analyzes collected materials, compiles an ethnographic dictionary, and writes articles on the folk medicine of Polissia. As a science popularizer, she has a telegram channel Mushrooms, Coffins, and Dissertations and creates a podcast of the same name. In addition, she is a co-author with Anna Nikolaieva of the podcast Porobleno and gives charity popular science lectures.

Professional experience:

From 2011 to 2022, Daria worked as an organizational teacher at the educational complex Shchastia. From 2016 to 2017, she worked as a senior lecturer at Taurida National University. In 2016, she also reviewed papers for the Minor Academy of Sciences.

Since 2019, Daria has been working as a researcher at the State Research Center for the Protection of Cultural Heritage from Man-Made Disasters.

Keywords:

• History

• Science popularization

• Teaching

• Book writing

• Cultural studies

Basic scientific publications:

• Folk beliefs about epilepsy: symbolic and semiotic aspects (based on the materials of the expedition to Chernihiv Polissya)

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  Antsibor Daria Studia Methodologica, 49 (2019), pp. 95-106.

  Role: Author

• The problem of the etiology of the images of the goddesses Eostre/Ostara and the hare in the context of Easter traditions.

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  Studia Methodologica, 50, С.113-121.

  Role: Author

• Whispess as a magical consultant: knowledge transfer and specificity of service provision (based on expeditionary materials from the Northern Chernihiv region)

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  Northern Ukraine in the History of Ukraine, 2021. Issue 14. С. 340-344

  Role: Author