Catastrophic Experience of Two Ukrainian Borders as a Subject of Anthropological Research

Abstract

The proposed study attempts to trace the main components of the anthropological catastrophism of the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century, characteristic of the two border territories – Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Belarusian. Borderlands to highlight this problematic is not chosen by chance since it is in its historical and cultural spaces that a catastrophe as a category of anthropological discourse can be read more clearly. The terminology of the “anthropology of disaster” is virtually absent to indicate the scientific direction in the Ukrainian information field, and the component structure of the anthropology of the catastrophe is still not sufficiently detailed. The evaluation criteria for these components have not been worked out and substantiated. The urgency of the problem is reinforced by this fact.