%0 Journal Article %T Hutsulshchyna and Public Progress %A Anna Kibych %J Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series %D 2012 %I %R 10.2478/v10089-010-0013-2 %X The article describes the public-demographic changes in Hutsulshchyna in the light of political and economic surroundings of a changing Ukraine. There are indications proving that structural shifts in Hutsuls' ethnic culture, caused by cultural globalization, are about to happen. Preservation of ethnographic features in present-day conditions, as well as Hutsuls' adaptation to new social realities, appears to become a complex socio-cultural problem of this region of Ukraine. %K Ukraine %K Hutsulshchyna %K geography of culture %K ethnic minorities %U http://versita.metapress.com/content/9u04k802676uv131/?p=1a8e4c45c0244ea6a349762347516865&pi=2