Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Evenks Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedical Knowledge and Their Representation in Cultural Practices of the Soviet Period

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (7)
Authors
Seredkina, Natalya N.; Ermakov, Tikhon K.
Contact information
Seredkina, Natalya N. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; Ermakov, Tikhon K. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Keywords
ethnomedicine; ethnobotany; Evenks; the USSR; cultural practices; representation
Abstract

Rethinking knowledge systems in modern humanities has revealed the problem of studying traditional forms of explaining the surrounding world. Ethnobotanical and ethnomedical knowledge are becoming one of the most striking objects of analysis in this system, since they allow not only to detect the existence of traditional knowledge in modern epistemes, but also to trace the very logic of the historical interaction of the old and the new. Turning to the experience of representing ethnobotanical and ethnomedical knowledge in Evenki cultural practices of the Soviet period, one can trace the patterns of mutual influence of modernizing Soviet practices and traditional approaches of the ethnocultural group itself. Through the analysis of folklore, ritual practices and emerging institutions of official medicine, the article shows how, during the Soviet period, traditional knowledge of the Evenki was integrated into the new cultural space with the help of ethnographic and political discourses that constructed bridges between the traditional and modern spaces of Evenki culture at the Soviet stage of its existence

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1300–1311
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MIXJKL
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/156644

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