Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods
Goals. The article seeks to analyze healing techniques developed in nomadic culture and reveal the logic of such actions. Methods. The study employs the comparative historical method which proves instrumental in identifying common features of understanding and interpreting natural and cultural ph...
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Российской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центр
2020-07-01
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| author | Bair Z. Nanzatov Marina M. Sodnompilova |
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| description | Goals. The article seeks to analyze healing techniques developed in nomadic culture
and reveal the logic of such actions. Methods. The study employs the comparative historical
method which proves instrumental in identifying common features of understanding and
interpreting natural and cultural phenomena by Turko-Mongols; fruitful enough is the method of cultural-historical reconstruction which reveals the logic of archaic views. Materials.
Mongols tend to view any deviation from norm in human body as disease, the latter divided
into obvious and non-obvious ones, i.e. those the nature of which was unknown to people.
Origins of most diseases were reduced to harmful activities of supernatural beings living next
to humans. Thus, such personification somewhat facilitated the healing: a deity or spirit of
disease could be frightened, persuaded, or appeased. Conclusions. The key idea underlying a
significant number of traditional healing techniques was the intention to scare disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d6dee6881e44cdfab5b61c7624dcbf92022-12-21T18:45:34ZengРоссийской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центрМонголоведение2500-15232020-07-01121132141https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2020-1-132-141Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing MethodsBair Z. Nanzatov0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8012-2515Marina M. Sodnompilova1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-0494Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the RASInstitute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the RASGoals. The article seeks to analyze healing techniques developed in nomadic culture and reveal the logic of such actions. Methods. The study employs the comparative historical method which proves instrumental in identifying common features of understanding and interpreting natural and cultural phenomena by Turko-Mongols; fruitful enough is the method of cultural-historical reconstruction which reveals the logic of archaic views. Materials. Mongols tend to view any deviation from norm in human body as disease, the latter divided into obvious and non-obvious ones, i.e. those the nature of which was unknown to people. Origins of most diseases were reduced to harmful activities of supernatural beings living next to humans. Thus, such personification somewhat facilitated the healing: a deity or spirit of disease could be frightened, persuaded, or appeased. Conclusions. The key idea underlying a significant number of traditional healing techniques was the intention to scare disease.https://mongoloved.kigiran.com/jour/article/view/476/380inner asiaturko-mongolsdiseasestraditional representationsceremoniesmethods of healing |
| spellingShingle | Bair Z. Nanzatov Marina M. Sodnompilova Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods Монголоведение inner asia turko-mongols diseases traditional representations ceremonies methods of healing |
| title | Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods |
| title_full | Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods |
| title_fullStr | Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods |
| title_short | Folk Medicine of Inner Asian Nomads: Logic of Healing Methods |
| title_sort | folk medicine of inner asian nomads logic of healing methods |
| topic | inner asia turko-mongols diseases traditional representations ceremonies methods of healing |
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