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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 4 (178), 865—873

UDK [930.2:355.48(470+570:477)”2022/2024″]:177.7

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.04.865

ACTUALIZATION OF CUSTOMS OF MUTUAL SUPPORT DURING THE WAR (BASED ON ORAL HISTORY TESTIMONIES OF 2022—2024)

KRYKUN Yulia

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid. org/0000-0002-0175-4352
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences,
  • Head of the Art History and Folklore Department,
  • State Scientific Center for the Protection of Cultural Heritage
  • from man-made disasters,
  • 56, ave. Beresteyskyi, 03056, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: juliya.s.krykun@gmail.com

Abstract. In the course of certain historical circumstances, especially cataclysms (in the conditions of wars, famines, technological disasters, etc.), there is a change in the norms of behavior, interpersonal relations, a change in values and life priorities. People behave differently in extreme situations, in particular, in conditions of war, but it is obvious that there is an actualization of the customs of mutual support. We all witnessed the war, but most of all the difficulties were felt by the displaced persons  — internal and temporarily displaced persons who are forced to adapt to the new environment, etc., and most of all those who survived the occupation and adapted to new, sometimes extremely difficult, living conditions: «In the twenty-first century we will again hide in basements, cook at the stake and see so much destruction, death!». Now it is important to find common and different experiences of experiencing the war of those who stayed at home and had to migrate to other countries, saving their lives and their relatives.

The aim of the article is to try to characterize changes in moral and ethical values and social norms, in particular, on the example of experiencing the modern Russian-Ukrainian war within the country (in the occupied territory) and outside it (Poland). The article also provides a brief overview of the results of the impact of the war in the following main spheres of life: social, family and religious.

The main methods of research: oral history, autobiographical, systematization, historical and comparative.

Keywords: oral history, occupation, migration, norms of behavior, collective support, family, moral and ethical values, Ukrainians.

Received 5.07.2024

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