Publikace na Fakulta humanitních studií |
2015
Abstrakt
The topic of suicide chose me rather than me choosing it. My doctoral fieldwork in the Altai Republic (South West Siberia) coincided with a chain of deaths in Kara village, of which two were, from my poin of view, suicides.
A 20-year-old girl shot herself; she left a note requesting that she be nicely made up in the coffin. Her death followed that of a young man with whom she had allegedly been in love.
A year after being released from jail, he shot himself following a drunken fight with his friends. This incident came shortly after the death of a half-paralyzed old lady.
The interval between each consecutive death varied from ten days to a month and half, all in village with a population of no more than few hundred.