Papers by Veronika Beranská
The work builds on the scientific production on the theme of the resettled Czechs from areas of t... more The work builds on the scientific production on the theme of the resettled Czechs from areas of the former Soviet Union, which is continued treated on the soil of the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, v.v.i., and introduces the latest conducted grant project, in which I focused on the area of health and folk medicine. The text deals with a specific group of the Czech populations predominantly from Ukraine and Kazakhstan (partially also Belarus and Russia), whose ancestors set out in the second half of the 19th century to seek a better living in the direction to the east from the borders of then Austro-Hungary. Through the use of commemorative narrations and life trajectories of the participating actors, the work maps the background of the arrival in new destinations, life in the 20th century, the change of the political and social conditions and the subsequent remigration to the Czech Republic. With a few exceptions, all of the actors figuring in this work became part of the resett...
Folk healing, ritual and magic of Czechs resettled from Ukraine and Kazakhstan
The paper deals with the two closely interrelated thematic areas of human activity and thought, s... more The paper deals with the two closely interrelated thematic areas of human activity and thought, such as practical effort to recover health in the form of healing practices and the belief in the spiritual transcendence) beyond the individual actions in everyday life. The text is clearly divided into subcategories in accordance with the various aspects of folk healing and their adaptability to environmental change. The article is based on recollections and memories of Czechs resettled from the former Soviet Union and the knowledge of themed literature
A complementary folk cure at displaced compatriots from Ukraine, Kazakhstan
The paper deals with the complementary folk healing using by the resettled compatriots from the a... more The paper deals with the complementary folk healing using by the resettled compatriots from the area of the former Soviet Union, especially from the Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The text introduces into some healing practices, methods and procedures of families, which the resettled compatriots used to practice in their source country and transfer them into the milieu of their present households, or they still keep them in their mind
Listopadové „Spaces and Places in Transition“ se uskutečnilo ve Vile Lanna
They fear us, we are contagious...”
AM. Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica, Dec 1, 2020
They fear us, we are contagious...”: “Homo chernobylus” as an Example of a PotentiallyDisabled Person and His/Her Defence Strategy
AM Rivista della Societá Italiana di Antropologia Medica, 2020
Nowadays, there is a growing interest among anthropologists to do urban research that looks at bo... more Nowadays, there is a growing interest among anthropologists to do urban research that looks at both the government of the city and the dwellers' representations of the city (Lefebvre). Many ethnographies have thus focused, on the one hand, on urban policies and, on the other hand, on social practices. The Urban Anthropology Series published by Ashgate and the works published in the Journal Urbanities are good examples of this growing trend among anthropologists, which is consistent with the major transformation of cities around the world: gentrification, competition between cities, urban sprawl, mobility, heritagization, etc.. Urbanity is paradoxically claimed as one of the main attributes of Modernity at a time when cities are diluting and disseminating.
Komplementární (lidová) léčba u přesídlených krajanů z Ukrajiny a Kazachstánu
Krajanská lidová léčba a ritualizované praktiky u Čechů z Ukrajiny a Kazachstánu přesídlených do České republiky
Journal of Ethnology, 2013
Téma doktorské práce Mgr. Veroniky Beranské je jednak tradiční svým zaměřením na lidové léčitelst... more Téma doktorské práce Mgr. Veroniky Beranské je jednak tradiční svým zaměřením na lidové léčitelství, jednak originální vzhledem k výběru specifické skupiny respondentů. Navíc propojuje její farmaceutické a humanitní vzdělání. Autorka rovněž využívá nemalé výhody, kterou má jako spoluřešitelka grantu IAA700580801 – Identita a sociabilita migrantů z bývalého Sovětského svazu: následný výzkum řízených migrací s důrazem na druhou generaci (2008–2011, AV0/IA). Práci ovšem dominuje vlastní výzkum, realizovaný v průběhu několika posledních let v ČR mezi přesídlenými krajany z Ukrajiny a Kazachstánu. Nepochybně nejzajímavější skupinou zkoumaného vzorku jsou „černobylští Češi“. Základní teoretický přístup, který autorka volí, je kritická medicínská antropologie (s. 54). Text je rozdělen na část teoreticko-metodologickou (prvních 25 stran), po které následuje historicko-etnografický exkurs, popisující českou kolonizaci vymezených oblastí na Ukrajině a částečně i v Kazachstánu a Rusku (s margi...
Prace Etnograficzne, 2019
Cupping therapy is an ancient technique of healing used for a whole spectrum of health problems i... more Cupping therapy is an ancient technique of healing used for a whole spectrum of health problems in a wide range of ways, variations and methods. Besides the type of material used, the forms of application and explanation of the mechanism of the effect, the methods of its conduct differ. In addition to medical grasp of the subject, a broader and more comprehensive view of this method is also supported by a comparison of the historical variations and forms across territorial units and time horizon. For this purpose, both the historical context of cupping therapy on the territory of the Czech Republic, its archaic form captured within the community living in emigration in Ukraine and a brief overview of the current situation in the Czech Republic are depicted. The data was collected in 2008-2018 within three waves of resettled Czechs from Ukraine all over the territory of the Czech Republic.
Český lid, 2016
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of i... more The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the plight of the population from the accounts of residents living near the Chernobyl power plant, some of whom resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text shows the logic of the adaptation mechanisms of the group of people to the new circumstances and their mobilization of the cognitive potential in the conditions in which professional aid and biomedicine, which they commonly used, failed. Besides the traditional practices of folk treatment, innovations based on scraps of information gathered from the mass media, reading, knowledge of a healthy lifestyle, the application of extreme medical cures devised by doctors through experimentation, assert themselves under extreme conditions. Other than the information on the application of specific methods and procedures, the text shows the process of how 'human wisdom' on health and disease is formed and adapts to a new, in this case extreme, situation. In an individualized, complex society, these ideas are distinctly private, flexible and situational.
Český lid, 2016
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of i... more The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the plight of the population from the accounts of residents living near the Chernobyl power plant, some of whom resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text shows the logic of the adaptation mechanisms of the group of people to the new circumstances and their mobilization of the cognitive potential in the conditions in which professional aid and biomedicine, which they commonly used, failed. Besides the traditional practices of folk treatment, innovations based on scraps of information gathered from the mass media, reading, knowledge of a healthy lifestyle, the application of extreme medical cures devised by doctors through experimentation, assert themselves under extreme conditions. Other than the information on the application of specific methods and procedures, the text shows the process of how 'human wisdom' on health and disease is formed and adapts to a new, in this case extreme, situation. In an individualized, complex society, these ideas are distinctly private, flexible and situational.
Pavlivka Iodine Spring Water: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Contexts
Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe, 2015
Transnational migration and transnational entrepreneurship are increasingly important aspects of ... more Transnational migration and transnational entrepreneurship are increasingly important aspects of the contemporary world, whose spread is perhaps surpassed only by the growth of electronic communication (Giddens 2002). Despite their global dimension, transnational migration and transnational entrepreneurship are also firmly grounded in local experience and contexts in which they take on diverse and sometime unexpected forms. In the case of Central Europe, these transnational phenomena are deeply influenced by international state linkages from the socialist past (see Huwelmeier, chapter 3, this volume), which are being reinvented today by people who often have little personal experience of them.
The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, 2016
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in extreme conditions of incre... more The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl power plant. It reconstructs the plight of the population from the accounts of residents living near the Chornobyl power plant, some of whom resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text shows the logic of the adaptation mechanisms of the group of people to the new circumstances and their mobilization of the cognitive potential in the conditions in which professional aid and biomedicine, which they commonly used, failed. Besides the traditional practices of folk treatment, innovations based on scraps of information gathered from the mass media, reading, knowledge of a healthy lifestyle, the application of extreme medical cures devised by doctors through experimentation, assert themselves under extreme conditions. Other than the information on the application of specific methods and procedures, the text shows the process of how 'human wisdom' on health and disease is formed and adapts to a new, in this case extreme, situation. In an individualized, complex society, these ideas are distinctly private, flexible and situational.
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