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Culture Summary: Russians
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2021 • Pages:
By: Shimkin, Demitri B. (Demitri Boris), Adem, Teferi Abate.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Russians. Information is presented on major aspects of Russian culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2021
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1300-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dimitri Shimkin and Teferi Abate Adem
- This culture summary is based on the article "Russians" by Dimitri Shimkin, in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 6, Russia and Eurasia/China, Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond, eds. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co. 1994. Leon G. Doyon restructured the sections in October 2018 and updated population figures in January 2021. In May 2019 Teferi Abate Adem added the sections Trade, Division of Labor, Inheritance, Socialization, Political Organization, Social Control, Conflict, Religious Practitioners, Arts, Medicine, and Death and Afterlife.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Russians
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs