Compliance in The Russian Village. Biopolitics or Dissemination of Hygiene Messages?

Соблюдение норм в русской деревне: биополитика или распространение гигиенических сообщений?
М.С. Туторская, Е.Е. Бергер
2023-04-21

Ethnographic BureauRussian peasantryfolk healingmedical ethnographyscientific medicine
В статье рассматриваются «медицинские» материалы, собранные в рамках работы «Этнографического бюро князя В.Н. Тенишева», систематизированные сотрудником бюро Г.И. Поповым и составленный им проект программы по медицинской этнографии. Гавриил Попов написал исследовательскую работу не только о принципиальных отличиях народного врачевания от научной ме-дицины, но и о картине мира русского крестьянства. Исследование имело ко-лоссальную практическую значимость. Этнография, понятая таким образом, имела возможность превратиться из описательной дисциплины, изучающей местный фольклор, в эффективный инструмент медицинской практики, и, как следствие, управления империей. The article deals with the "medical" materials collected during the work of the "Eth-nographic Bureau of Prince V.N. Tenishev”, systematized by G.I. Popov - one of the twelve full-time employees of the bureau - and the draft program on medical ethnography, compiled by G.I. Popov. Gavriil Popov wrote a serious research work that raised important questions not only about the fundamental differences between folk healing and scientific medicine, but also about the picture of the world of the Russian peasantry. The study had enormous practical significance. Ethnography, understood in this way, had the potential to transform itself from a descriptive dis-cipline studying local folklore into an effective instrument of medical practice, and therefore empire management.
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Popov’s medical ethnography examined fundamental differences between folk healing and scientific medicine.
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The article argues that ethnography could evolve from descriptive folklore study into an instrument of medical practice and imperial governance.
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The materials had practical significance for applying ethnographic knowledge to medical practice.
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The research reconstructed elements of the Russian peasantry’s worldview alongside their medical practices.
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The study analyzes medical materials collected by Prince V.N. Tenishev’s Ethnographic Bureau and systematized by G.I. Popov.

medical ethnographic materials of the Russian peasantry collected by the Ethnographic Bureau of Prince V.N. Tenishev

the differences between folk healing and scientific medicine and the Russian peasantry’s worldview, with implications for medical practice and imperial governance

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Е.Е. Бергер
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