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Musical Culture and Art of the Arctic Peoples is collection of scientific papers by Yu. Sheikin, O. Dobzhanskaya, Z. Ivanova-Unarova, S. Ode, T. Ignatieva, V. Dyakonova, L. Kardashevskaya. It consists 21 articles which are devoted to... more
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      FolkloreIndigenous StudiesEthnomusicologySocial and Cultural Anthropology
A general introduction, organized alphabetically, to Mongolia and the Mongol Empire. On many topics it is the only account available in English.
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      Mongolian StudiesYuan DynastyHistory of the Mongol EmpireTibeto-Mongolian Buddhism
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      Indigenous StudiesSiberiaIndigenous PeoplesSiberian Studies
The article shows the burning practices used by native northern hunters-gatherers and reindeer herders of Western Siberia as a potential factor of impact on surrounding landscapes. In this sense, the research focuses primarily on aspects... more
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      Indigenous StudiesEthnoarchaeologyFire EcologyIndigenous Knowledge
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      Indigenous StudiesSiberiaFood and NutritionDogs
Эта брошюра посвящена селу Токма и всем людям, для которых это прекрасное место является домом. Тем, кто до сих пор там живет, и тем, кто волею судеб уже переехал в другие села и города. Токма, расположенная в Катангском районе Иркутской... more
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      SiberiaEcologyShrinking CitiesSiberian Studies
One of the contradictory issues in the Orochon phonology is the absence / presence of diphthongs. Within the theoretical study conducted, we compared the Orochon phonological system with the Chinese and acquired the information about... more
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      Acoustic PhoneticsPhonetics and PhonologyEvenkiOroqen language
The article describes the characteristics and manifestations of ethnic identity in the multi-national population of the taiga territory on the Demjanka river. The study is focused on the four groups — the Khanty, the Evenks, the Russians... more
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      International RelationsRussianIdentity (Anthropology)Stereotypes and Prejudice
This article continues the series of the works devoted to the study of ethnic composition of the Buryat and Khamnigan departments in 19th century. One of the self-government bodies of indigenous of the Transbaikalia in the 19th century... more
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      Inner Asian StudiesMongolian StudiesTungusic languagesBuryatia
The folk medicine of the Mongolian peoples is a generally understudied phenomenon, occasionally considered by scholars in the context of ethnographic, historical and sociological problems. Such aspect of folk medicine as healing methods... more
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      Asian StudiesPharmacyAnthropologyMedical Anthropology
The Mongolic-speaking Kalmyks currently inhabiting the steppes of the Volga region have Central Asian ancestry and are organized into the tribal groups. The genetic relationships among these tribes and their origin have remained obscure.... more
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      AnthropologyHuman GeneticsPhylogeographyPopulation Genetics
Continuing on previous research, in this fifth part of a paper series, a total of fifteen newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern... more
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      Historical LinguisticsRussian LanguageTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical Borrowing
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      Mongolian StudiesYuan DynastyHistory of the Mongol EmpireTibeto-Mongolian Buddhism
In this sixth part of this paper series, additional Turkic (i.e. Yakut) and Tungusic (i.e. Ewen or Ewenki) lexical borrowings into the Yukaghir languages and dialects are presented and evaluated in semantic, phonological and other... more
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      Historical LinguisticsRussian LanguageTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical Borrowing
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      LanguagesAnthropologyAnthropological LinguisticsDiachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)
In this paper, we shall have a look at series of astronomical terms and their etymologies in a historical context, including etymologized and non-etymologized terminology in Yakut (Turkic), Written Mongolian, Dagur and Khalkha (Mongolic),... more
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      EtymologySanskrit language and literatureTungusic languagesAstronomy
In this paper, lexical borrowings between Dagur (a Mongolic language) and Solon (a Tungusic language) are presented. A large majority of the borrowings are from Dagur into Solon. A few scattered examples of other borrowings in the local... more
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      PhonologyEtymologyChinese Language and CultureTungusic languages
In this study, over a dozen new lexical borrowings related to fauna in the Altai-Sayan region are presented and suggested between Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolic, Yeniseian and Samoyedic languages, with specific focus on individual Samoyedic... more
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      Russian LanguageYeniseian LanguagesTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical Borrowing
The Evenki of Siberia are modern hunters who live in the extreme envi- ronments of the taiga. Their social organization has traits of egalitarian- ism which present a living alternative to the Western form of social orga- nization based... more
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      PhotographyShamanismEvenki
In the current installment of the Ethnographic Atlas we present formalized data (following Murdock's scheme) on ten Siberian peoples not covered by any of the previous installments. The reviewed peoples belong to the following cultural... more
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      AnthropologySocial AnthropologyEthnographySocial and Cultural Anthropology
This paper presents twenty-five newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghiric languages of far northeastern Siberia. The chronology of the borrowings is considered, and solid... more
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      Lexical and Grammatical BorrowingYakutTurkic languagesYukaghir
We examine the lithic assemblage at West Heath, London, which is dated to the early mesolithic period between 11,000 and 9,750 years before present. We used information from nearby mesolithic sites (e.g. Three Ways Wharf) and further... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyEnvironmental ArchaeologyMesolithic Archaeology
Дагурско-русский словарь содержит более 5900 слов современного дагурского языка, некоторые устойчивые словосочетания, выражения, встречающиеся в религии, отдельные специальные технические и другие термины. Предназначен для монголоведов,... more
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      PhilologyLanguagesRussian StudiesChinese Studies
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      Indigenous StudiesHuman-Animal RelationsSiberiaHuman-Animal Studies
The Evenki oročon live in Yakutia (Sakha Republic) and in the Amur basin. They perceive themselves as an integral part of the natural environment. They were partly sedentarized under the Soviet regime, and they are now to get to the... more
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      AdaptationSiberiaSoul (Humanities)Post-Socialism
In this paper, lexical borrowings between Dagur (a Mongolic language) and Solon (a Tungusic language) are presented. Most borrowings are from Dagur into Solon. A few scattered examples of other borrowings in the local languages are also... more
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      Chinese Language and CultureTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical BorrowingMongolic Studies
This paper focuses on the use of the Russian predicative nado in Evenki, in particular, in two corpora of oral stories in Evenki recorded in 1930-2014. This predicative is generally considered as a lexical borrowing, written as нāда/... more
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      Loanwords, Language contact & changeCode SwitchingArgument RealizationEvenki
Отношения человека и природы – достаточно традиционная тема для социальной антропологии, особенно для исследования коренного населения Сибири. Предлагаемая читателю монография является продолжением дискуссий о взаимодействии человека и... more
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      Indigenous StudiesEnvironmental AnthropologyIndigenous KnowledgeSiberia
The study is based on the text corpus (live stories and tales) recorded from narrators belonging to different dialects of Evenki. A corpus displays spontaneous speech whose analysis can give results different from those bases on... more
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      SyntaxSyntactic ChangeWord orderGenerative grammar
This book aims to examine the functioning of community life in two villages of Yakutia (I use the pseudonyms K. and T. here) on the basis of fieldwork conducted between 2002–2011. I endeavour to involve the concept of social capital in... more
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      Social CapitalPostsocialismPersonhoodSakha (Yakutiia)
Officially recognized as a single ‘ethnic minority’ in the Chinese administrative system, Evenki groups belong to a distinctive geographical and cultural milieu. This case study analyses Evenki expressions of loyalty to state authorities... more
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      EthnicityInner MongoliaEvenki
This chapter provides an account of vernacular architecture among the Reindeer Ewenki of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It describes the vernacular characteristics of Ewenki dwellings and their transformation over time,... more
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      Vernacular ArchitectureMinority StudiesChinaEthnic minorities
Evenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word ‘shaman’ has been borrowed from their language. Despite such... more
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      CyberneticsSiberiaGregory BatesonHunter-Gatherers (Anthropology)
Continuing on previous research, in this fourth part of a paper series, a total of sixteen newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern... more
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      Historical LinguisticsRussian LanguageTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical Borrowing
Overview of indigenous rights issues in the Russian Arctic.
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      Russian StudiesIndigenous StudiesIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesPolar Studies
This paper presents further borrowings mostly related to reindeer economy in the far north-eastern Siberian area between several non-genetically affiliated languages. The semantics, phonology and chronology are discussed. The following... more
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      Uralic LinguisticsLexical and Grammatical BorrowingSamoyedic languagesYakut
The reviewed book is Anna Sirina’s study Evenki and Evens in the Modern World which has initiated a lively discussion within the Russian anthropological community. The author’s approach to the two peoples’ ethnic identity is reviewed... more
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      Social Constructionism/ ConstructivismSiberian Ethnography (Anthropology)Evenki
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      Tungusic languagesTabooTigerEuphemism
This paper discusses my efforts in analyzing the important linguistic data on Khentii-Dornod Khamnigan Ewenki, a probably now extinct Tungusic language of Mongolia documented by the Mongolian scholar Academician B. Rinchen in the 1960s... more
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      Mongolian StudiesTungusic languagesMongoliaSalvage Linguistics
A copy of the whole productive discussion session on the draft paper of "Additional Turkic and Tungusic borrowings into Yukaghir, pt. 2" totaling 37 pages and with 34 participants.
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      Russian LanguageLexical and Grammatical BorrowingPolish LanguageYakut
The outline of this paper is a reasoning that the Demyanka river valley of the Low Irtysh River watershed may be considered as an effective scientific platform to study the ecological adaptation of the Siberian peoples. The area represents... more
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      International RelationsRussianEcological AnthropologyAnthropology of locality
based on Tsintsius 1982, Schmidt 1928, Lidija Sem 1986, Poppe 1958, Sunik 1958, Sunik 1949, Awrorin 1951, Doerfer 1956, Miščenko 2014, Zhang 1998, An 1986, Wasilewič 1949, Gerasimowa 2002, Wseurkajinskyj perepys naselennja 2001,... more
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      Tungusic languagesManchu languageEvenkiUlcha language
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      Pastoralism (Social Anthropology)Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture)TourismInner Mongolia
ÖZET Bu çalışmanın amacı geleneksel Evenk toplumunun geçirmiş olduğu sosyal ve siyasi süreç içerisinde ne gibi toplumsal değişiklikler geçirdiğini ortaya koymak ve bu değişim süreci içerisinde geleneksel Evenk sosyal kurum ve yapılarının... more
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      SiberiaSocial StructureEvenkiTungusic Studies
In this article the Evenki way of moving is studied with an intention to reformulate the place of movement in modern hunter-gathering cultures. Firstly, the data collected during the fieldworks among two Evenki groups will be presented in... more
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      Maps and SocietyWalkingEvenki
Continuing on previous research, in this second part of a paper series, ten newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far north eastern Siberia are... more
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      Altaic LinguisticsTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical BorrowingMongolian Languages
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      SiberiaNomadismTungusic languagesSiberian Studies
This article deals with the relationships between identity , language, and " clan organization " among Ilimpii Evenki, and how these relationships formed and changed over the course of the twentieth century under the influence of Soviet... more
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      Soviet HistorySociolinguisticsLanguage Planning and PolicySiberia
Formation of Polyethnic Ethno-territorial Group Under Administration of Urulgin Talyn Dum (Urulgyn Steppe Duma) (Interaction of Daurs, Mongols and Evenks)
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      Inner Asian StudiesMongolian Studies19th Century (History)Far East
A copy of the whole productive and exhaustive discussion session on the draft paper of "Additional Turkic and Tungusic borrowings into Yukaghir, pt. 6" [1st Draft paper edition] totaling an impressive 52 pages and with 85 participants.
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      Russian LanguageTungusic languagesLexical and Grammatical BorrowingSiberian Turkic languages