Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Concept of “Health” in the Nenets Culture

Full text (.pdf)
Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (2)
Authors
Seredkina, Natalya N.; Ermakov, Tikhon K.; Gomonov, Ilya S.
Contact information
Seredkina, Natalya N. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0002-9248-8810; Ermakov, Tikhon K. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6967-8720; Gomonov, Ilya S. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0009-0008-3395-5926
Keywords
ethnic medicine; the concept of “health”; Nenets; traditional culture; medical anthropology
Abstract

This article is an analysis of the concept of “health” within the framework of the traditional culture of the Nenets through the prism of mythological and religious beliefs revealed in the analysis of Nenets folklore and visual art. The article examines three concepts of “health” characteristic of traditional cultures: as a positive definition reflecting a person’s harmony with the world order; as a condition caused by purposeful, harmful influence from outside; as a socially constructed definition related to the correlation between a person and society. The analysis of folklore texts and works of art demonstrates that the concept of “health” in Nenets culture functions not only as a medical, but also as a worldview category that forms a system of values and norms of behavior, serving as a significant ethno-identification factor for preserving the integrity of the ethnocultural group of Nenets

Pages
248–258
EDN
DBCCPJ
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158148

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).