Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Images of “Traditional Food” in Nenets Folklore

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (2)
Authors
Koptseva, Natalia P.; Perepelitsa, Yulia N.
Contact information
Koptseva, Natalia P. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3910-7991; Perepelitsa, Yulia N. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0002-0279-9958
Keywords
Nenets; Samoyedic peoples; traditional food; folklore; cultural heritage; cultural memory
Abstract

This article examines the problem of consolidating the image of traditional food and the eating process in general in the folklore of the Nenets, an indigenous people of the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East, linguistically belonging to the Samoyedic group. The importance of the concept of “traditional food” for the development of ethnotourism and ethnogastronomy is emphasized. A number of characteristics are identified by which a food product can be defined as “traditional”: the time of creation of the recipe, the technology (before the 1930s), the places where this technology arose and is used (locality), the uniqueness of the recipe, the technology of preparation, and the methods of transmitting the recipe and technology. It also emphasizes that traditional food must necessarily serve as a marker of belonging to a specific ethnocultural group and be its integral attribute

Pages
292–303
EDN
KILZYT
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158152

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