Book
The Samoyed peoples and languages
Indiana University • 14 • Published In 1963 • Pages: viii, 114
By: Hajdú, Péter, Esztergár, Marianne, Csanyi, Attila P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides a cultural summary of the Samoyed peoples (Nenets, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, and Kamas). It includes short sections on habitat, biological characteristics, material culture, subsistence activities, religious beliefs, folklore and history. In addition there is a more extensive section on language which includes phonological and grammatical information for the various Samoyed dialects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Linguistic identification
- Speech
- Phonology
- Grammar
- Cultural identity and pride
- Cultural participation
- Pastoral activities
- Annual cycle
- Fishing
- Dwellings
- Diet
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Mode of marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoyed
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- North Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Amal Vinogradov; Helen Gunsher Bornstein ; 1975; Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1600-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoyed Region, Russian North
- NotesAdditional notes
- Péter Hajdú Translated into English by Marianne Esztergár and Attila P. Csanyi
- 'American Council of Learned Societies. Research and studies in Uralic and Altaic languages, project no. 99.'
- A revision of the author's series of articles which first appeared in 1949 in Magyar nyelvör, v. 73
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-114)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62063347
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoyeds
- Samoyedic languages