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The folk healing in memoirs and living presence of resettled compatriots from the former Soviet Union
Beranská, Veronika ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
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 resettlement processes - in the case of the Volyn Czechs after World War II in 1947 within the controlled exchange of the populations and in the case of the Chernobyl Czechs (and partially also some of the Czechs from Belarus and Russia) in the 1990s within the state-controlled resettlement after the accident at the Chernobyl...
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Folk medicine in Moravian-Silesian Beskids
Lichý, Kateřina Charlotte ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
(in English) This bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of folk medicine in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids. The aim of the thesis is to present the current state of folk medicine and its methods and meanings, focusing on phytotheraphy and medical treatment of the most common diseases in the studied area. Traditional folk healers who mainly worked in the 20th century, their lives, methods of healing, and the potential transformation of healing practice at the beginning of the 21st century are also introduced. The thesis tries to capture not only the present state of folk medicine in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, but also its recent history and possible future development. Attention is paid to the status of folk medicine and its reflection in local folklore. The methodological basis of the thesis is grounded in the methodology of historical and anthropological sciences and in the classical concept of ethnological fieldwork; with ethnographic interview as a data collection technique. The results of the fieldwork show that folk medicine is still a significant part of people's lives in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids and that folk healing methods and practices are still used by the population of the area. Although folk magic and invocation used for healing of both people and animals have largely been...
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Medical Manuscripts of Southwest Bohemia and Their Inventory
VALINOVÁ, Šárka
This thesis presents image of varied methods of treatment in the past, based on analysis of recipes, which are recorded in medical manuscripts of the 15.-19. century stored in various scientific and cultural institutions in Jihočeský region and Plzeňský region. It contains also an inventory of these manuscripts and presents an attempt of their classification. This thesis also deals with authors of recipes, which are written in these medical manuscripts. In appendices can be found (besides previously mentioned inventory) pictures of some records in these manuscripts, a dictionary of less known Old Czech expressions and archaisms, which occured in this thesis, and a list of names.
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"Jádro vybrané z mnohých knih lékařských" of 1674
VALINOVÁ, Šárka
This bachelor?s thesis presents a codicological and content analysis of manuscript titled ?Jádro vybrané z mnohých knih lékařských? of 1674 with pressmark RK 80, which is housed at the Vlastivědné muzeum dr. Hostaše in Klatovy and is partially based on Lékařské knížky from master Křišťan of Prachatice. First chapter contains brief history of medicine and introduces some of the significant persons of czech medieval medicine. Next part of the thesis deals with the analysis of the manuscript, whose part is also comparison with Křišťan?s work. In appendices can be found tables of contents of the manuscript, samples of handwritting, pictures of watermarks of paper, on which is this manuscript written, and a dictionary, which contains most frequently occuring Old Czech words in this thesis.
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A complementary folk cure at displaced compatriots from Ukraine, Kazakhstan
Beranská, Veronika
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.
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