I. Ignatenko, PHD in History, Associate Professor
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2021.149.4
UKRAINIAN FOLK MEDICINE OF CHERNOBYL POLISSYA: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS OF RESEARCH IN INDEPENDENT UKRAINE (TO 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER)
The author analyzes the works of Ukrainian historians and ethnologists dedicated to the Folk Medicine of Polissya, which has affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster on 26 April 1986.
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is assessed as the most serious accident ever to occur in the nuclear power industry and had disruptive nature had not only on the people, the ground, and the water but also have had negative influences on the Folk Culture.
It was shown that after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Ukrainian scientific community has shown a high civic position and scientific activity. Thanks to the post-Chernobyl expeditions, the Folk Medicine of Polissya appeared in the center of the research interest of Ukrainian ethnologists.
The ethnographic, historical and folklore materials which were collected in these expeditions have shown that Folk Medicine has one of the main places in the system of ethnic culture of Chernobyl Polissya, presents the prophylaxis and medical treatment, ideas about illnesses and their reasons are described etc. Also, influences social-sanitary norms, everyday culture, psychological aims, and contacts.
Keywords: folk medicine, traditional culture, Polissya of Ukraine, Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
Submitted: 22.05.2021
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