Anthropology of disease. In the wake of the Arctic Circle epidemics: field materials of I.S. Gurvich

• Published in: VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII
• Main Authors: Romanova E.N., Stepanova L.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RA 2021
• Subjects: history of epidemics; medical anthropology; indigenous ethnic groups of the north-east of russia; the population of the past; the anthropology of the disease; health-saving folk practices; the character and image of the disease; the language picture and the ritual context; Archaeology; CC1-960; Arctic; Yukagir; Evens; Yakutia; Yakuts
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2021-54-3-18; https://doaj.org/article/7c18cf6494e7435fb233a6c4780ed9c0

The unique body of materials collected by the Soviet ethnographer and the North scholar I.S. Gurvich (1919–1992) in places of compact residence of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia (the Yukagir expedition of 1959) for the first time determined scientific interest in the problem of medical anthropolo...