«They fear us, we are contagious…» “Homo chernobylus” as an example of a potentially disabled person and his/her defence strategy

0541867 - EÚ 2022 RIV IT eng J - Journal Article
Beranská, Veronika - Uherek, Zdeněk
«They fear us, we are contagious…» “Homo chernobylus” as an example of a potentially disabled person and his/her defence strategy.
AM. Roč. 21, č. 50 (2021), s. 89-111. ISSN 1593-2737
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/22
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : Chernobyl * Ukraine * ecological disaster * Czech Republic * disability * resettlement
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
Method of publishing: Open access
http://www.amantropologiamedica.unipg.it/index.php/am/issue/view/24/25

The text is targeted on the defensive strategies and adaptation mechanisms used against radiation by residents of Ukrainian settlements trapped at a distance of 60–80 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its explosion. It discusses coping with disabilities by modification of folk healing, oral narratives in the form of black humour, and religiosity. The core of the data was collected among a specific group of ethnic Czechs resettled from Ukraine to the Czech Republic in 1991–1993.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0319443