The Forest Nenets. Traditional Medicine

We offer our readers some chapters from the book The Forest Nenets, which is the result of the long-term project "Our Neighbors: The Forest Nenets". The aim of the project is to study and preserve the material and spiritual culture of the Forest Nenets, a small ethnic group living in the southern part of the Yamal-Nenetsk Autonomous District ("YNAD") in the Pur River basin. The project is quite unique because it was carried out by the workers of the Gubkinskiy Museum of North Development jointly with the natives, who still live according to their traditions. The natives recorded and described their daily routine life. For this purpose, the Museum donated to them tape recorders, video and photo equipment. In this way, the daily routine of Nentsy camps was "self-documented" over several years.*

More information on these and other subjects you can find in the printed version of our journal.