It's a child's thing. How our ancestors were little

This book is a journey into the childhood of five boys and girls from different regions of Ukraine at the end of the 19th century. It opens up a world of rituals, words, and things that once seemed familiar in the Hutsul region and Bukovyna, Polissia, Podillia, and the Dnipro region.
The story begins with the cutting of the umbilical cord by a midwife and ends with several loud Ukrainian weddings. The authors combine a fictional narrative with ethnographic material and show how traditions were formed under the influence of place, faith, language, and family system, how different they were, and how urbanization influenced the transformation of social roles.
“Dilo ditoche” is not nostalgia for the past, but an attempt to understand it. After reading it, you will see how your great-grandparents lived — and, perhaps, you will recognize something of your own in them.