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Tales of Yukaghir
Waldemar Bogaras
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Description for Tales of Yukaghir
Paperback. Tales of adventure and courage among the peoples of Eastern Siberia Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCS; 3JH; CF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 108 x 23. Weight in Grams: 218.
First published in English in 1918 by the American Museum of Natural History in its series of Anthropological Papers, the stories told here in Tales of Yukaghir were collected among Russianized natives of Eastern Siberia at the end of the nineteenth-century while Bogaras was exiled into North-Eastern Siberia for revolutionary activities. These tales tell of kings, young heroes on horseback, and adventurous animals with varied powers, relating details of native life that clearly show their Russian or Turko-Mongol provenance. In addition to delighting audiences around the world, Bogoras's work in ethnography and ethnology proved valuable to the development of the ... Read more
First published in English in 1918 by the American Museum of Natural History in its series of Anthropological Papers, the stories told here in Tales of Yukaghir were collected among Russianized natives of Eastern Siberia at the end of the nineteenth-century while Bogaras was exiled into North-Eastern Siberia for revolutionary activities. These tales tell of kings, young heroes on horseback, and adventurous animals with varied powers, relating details of native life that clearly show their Russian or Turko-Mongol provenance. In addition to delighting audiences around the world, Bogoras's work in ethnography and ethnology proved valuable to the development of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
International Polar Institute Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780982170342
SKU
V9780982170342
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About Waldemar Bogaras
A widely published ethnographer and novelist, WALDEMAR BOGORAS was a "populist revolutionary" whose studies of the northern Siberian tribes became classics in the field.
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