The soul that goes to the doctors does not live
Disease and illness among nineteenth-century Russian peasants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3086035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oksana Golovashina (0000-0002-9911-175X, Ural Federal University, Russian Federation), Sergey K Lyamin (0000-0001-5357-8517, Ural Federal University, Russian Federation) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Pages | e2024068-e2024068 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702024000100068 |
| PMID | 39699531 |
| OpenAlex | W4405449990 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0104-59702024000100230 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The article deals with the representation of illness among Russian Orthodox peasants from the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Materials from ethnographic expeditions, folklore, nineteenth-century texts on treatments, memoirs, and publications in the local press are used as sources. Analysis of the sources allowed us to reach the following conclusions: the conception of illness among Russian peasants was constructed by various actors; rural doctors were the least influential among these actors; and illnesses were represented as a consequence of mixing the world of the living and the world of the dead or the action of anthropomorphic or zoomorphic entities, with treatment implying a return to the natural ("correct") order of things
Action (physics) · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Empire · Ethnography · Folklore · Memoir · Natural (archaeology) · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Soul · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law · Ottoman Empire History and Society · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |