book chapter
Journey to the northeast of European Russia, through the tundras of the Samoyeds, to the Artic Ural Mountains
Heinrich Laakmann • Dorpat • Published In 1854 • Pages:
By: Schrenk, Alexander Gustav, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The material included in this source is from Part 2 of Schrenks 2 part work. Only Chapters 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 14 pertain to the Samoyed and these have been translated for the Files. The first volume contained only scattered information about the Samoyed and, therefore, was not translated. The author did fieldwork among the Samoyed for the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg. In this work, he discusses the Samoyed who live on the Mezen and Timan tundras and also those on the Kanin Peninsula. Chapter 6, which contains excerpts from the “Supreme Law of the Year 1835,” is the most important chapter in this source. It lists the laws which were used by the Russians to govern the Samoyed. In Chapter 11, the author relates some representative Samoyed folk songs; Chapter 13 is an account of the fauna and game animals of the tundras and the methods for hunting and trapping used by the Samoyed; finally, Chapter 14 contains information dealing with marine hunting, especially sealing. Since the marine hunting techniques of the Russian promyshlenniks are so similar to those of the Samoyeds this information has been marked for category 225 in this file.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoyed
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Stephen F. Borhegyi ; 1951 ; Heather Fellows ; John Beierle ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1837
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alexander Gustav Schrenk
- Translation of: [Reise nach dem Nordosten des europäischen Russlands, durch die Tundren der Samojeden, zum Arktischen Uralgebirge]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoyeds