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Book Bogoras s 1901 Itelmen Notebooks

Download or read book Bogoras s 1901 Itelmen Notebooks written by Jonathan David Bobaljik and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in a planned series presenting the previously unpublished Itelmen material in Waldemar Bogoras's Itelmen notebooks from January and February 1901. The original notebooks are held in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. This first volume presents the Itelmen language folktales and narratives from the notebooks. This volume includes reproductions of the notebook pages with faithful transcriptions on facing pages, as well as standardized renderings in contemporary Itelmen with interlinear gloss and free translation in English and Russian, and also Bogoras' own notes and additional notes by the editor.

Book The Chukchee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Waldemar Bogoras
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 838 pages

Download or read book The Chukchee written by Waldemar Bogoras and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beauty of the Primitive

Download or read book The Beauty of the Primitive written by Andrei A. Znamenski and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Between Heaven and Hell

Download or read book Between Heaven and Hell written by G. Diment and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.

Book The New Age of Russia

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  • Author : Birgit Menzel
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9783866881976
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The New Age of Russia written by Birgit Menzel and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2012 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occult and esoteric ideas became deeply embedded in Russian culture long before the Bolshevik Revolution. Everyone interested in the occult and esoteric will appreciate this book, because it documents their continued importance in Russia and raises new issues for research and discussion.

Book The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island

Download or read book The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island written by Franz Boas and published by Leiden : E.J. Brill. This book was released on 1909 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visual Geometry and Topology

Download or read book Visual Geometry and Topology written by Anatolij T. Fomenko and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometry and topology are strongly motivated by the visualization of ideal objects that have certain special characteristics. A clear formulation of a specific property or a logically consistent proof of a theorem often comes only after the mathematician has correctly "seen" what is going on. These pictures which are meant to serve as signposts leading to mathematical understanding, frequently also contain a beauty of their own. The principal aim of this book is to narrate, in an accessible and fairly visual language, about some classical and modern achievements of geometry and topology in both intrinsic mathematical problems and applications to mathematical physics. The book starts from classical notions of topology and ends with remarkable new results in Hamiltonian geometry. Fomenko lays special emphasis upon visual explanations of the problems and results and downplays the abstract logical aspects of calculations. As an example, readers can very quickly penetrate into the new theory of topological descriptions of integrable Hamiltonian differential equations. The book includes numerous graphical sheets drawn by the author, which are presented in special sections of "Visual material". These pictures illustrate the mathematical ideas and results contained in the book. Using these pictures, the reader can understand many modern mathematical ideas and methods. Although "Visual Geometry and Topology" is about mathematics, Fomenko has written and illustrated this book so that students and researchers from all the natural sciences and also artists and art students will find something of interest within its pages.

Book Ancient Cultures of the Asiatic Eskimos

Download or read book Ancient Cultures of the Asiatic Eskimos written by Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Aruti︠u︡nov and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pioneers in European Ethnobiology

Download or read book Pioneers in European Ethnobiology written by Ingvar Svanberg and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eskimo Essays

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  • Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780813515892
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Eskimo Essays written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.

Book The Eskimo of Siberia

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  • Author : Waldemar Bogoras
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1465526889
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book The Eskimo of Siberia written by Waldemar Bogoras and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chukchee Mythology

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  • Author : Waldemar Bogoras
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 1910-01-01
  • ISBN : 1465546200
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Chukchee Mythology written by Waldemar Bogoras and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1910-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Koryak

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  • Author : Waldemar Jochelson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book The Koryak written by Waldemar Jochelson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yakut

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  • Author : Waldemar Jochelson
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-06-27
  • ISBN : 3942883929
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Yakut written by Waldemar Jochelson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first significant anthropological descriptions of northeastern Siberia, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked not only the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work The Yakut, for which he draw on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the northeastern Siberia.

Book Atka

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  • Author : Lydia Black
  • Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Atka written by Lydia Black and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the ethnographic history of the Aleuts up to 1867, the end of the period of Russian-American Company rule.

Book Russians in Alaska  1732 1867

Download or read book Russians in Alaska 1732 1867 written by Lydia Black and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."

Book Polar Peoples

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh Beach
  • Publisher : Minority Rights Group
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 187319451X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Polar Peoples written by Hugh Beach and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northern regions of the globe were populated by indigenous peoples long before explorers, gold-diggers, missionaries, bureaucrats and others ‘discovered’ their land. Polar Peoples describes the sometimes catastrophic effect these incomers and the changing world in general have had on native ways of life in this vast geographical area. It also outlines the awakening of native political activism and some of the most important steps taken towards self-determination by the indigenous peoples of the North. Greenland: Emergence of an Inuit Homeland (by Mark Nuttall) Unusual because of Home Rule from Denmark Native Peoples of the Russian Far North (by Nikolai Vakhtin) Little known outside Russia, these minority groups face an uncertain future The Alaska Natives (by Fae L. Korsmo) Highly significant because of the Alaska Native Claims Act The Inuit of Canada (by Ian Creery) Dene and Nunavut claims have been the subject of much political activity in recent months The Saami of Lapland (by Hugh Beach) Currently dealing with many different issues, from the ongoing effects of Chernoby] on their reindeer herds, to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. With each section written by a recognized expert in his or her field, Polar Peoples gives a fascinating look at this politically and environmentally changing area on the roof of the world. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.