Krajanská lidová léčba a ritualizované praktiky u Čechů z Ukrajiny a Kazachstánu přesídlených do České republiky

• Authors: Veronika Beranská

Title variants

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EXPATRIATES’ FOLK TREATMENT AND RITUALIZED PRACTISES WITH CZECHS FROM UKRAINE AND KASAKHSTAN TRANSFERRED TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study writes about folk treatment and related practices as they have survived in the memory of Czech expatriates transferred from the regions of the former Soviet Union, namely from Ukraine and Kasakhstan, to the Czech Republic. A special attention is paid to ritualized practices and folk magic associated with the word, such as healing procedures, exorcism, and incantation. The means and approaches of folk medicine are viewed from the angle of ethno-medicine and medical anthropology. The presented knowledge are based on a field research among the expatriates transferred to the Czech Republic between 1991-1993, mainly from the regions of Zhitomir and Kiev in Ukraine, and between 1994-2001 from Kasakhstan. The field research was implemented between 2009-2012 in the whole Czech Republic. The mentions about folk treatment and related practices were recorded in nine locations. Fifty persons altogether were asked about folk treatment. As confirmed by the field research, the transferred expatriates used ritualized practices and applied exorcism in folk treatment. They have kept in their memories some practices and healing means recipes until today, twenty years after their transfer to the Czech Republic.

Keywords

EN

UKRAINE; KAZAKHSTAN; CZECH REPUBLIC; MIGRATION; FOLK MEDICINE; ETHNO-MEDICINE

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 264 – 271

Contributors

author

Veronika Beranská

• Oddělení etnických studií Etnologického ústavu Akademie věd České republiky, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic