Monografiya avtora Oksany Sklyarenko posvyashchena analizu traditsionnoy ukrainskoy kukly na rubezhe KhKh - KhKhI vekov, kak nositelya etnichnosti. Rassmotreny problemy tolkovaniya znakovo-simvolicheskogo soderzhaniya traditsionnoy kukly. Predstavleny avtorskie opredeleniya "traditsionnaya kukla", primitivnaya kukla , autentichnaya kukla . Privedeny primery prakticheskogo primeneniya naslediya ukrainskoy kul'tury v protsesse obucheniya i vospitaniya detey mladshego i srednego shkol'nogo vozrasta. Dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley interesuyushchikhsya kul'turoy i istoriey.