essay
The Nganasans
peoples of Siberia • Chicago And London • Published In 1964 • Pages: 571-581
By: Popov, A. A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a condensed general ethnographic description of the Nganasans culture prior to the Bolshevik revolution, with a brief section on changes brought about by the Soviet takeover. The Nganasans form the most northerly group among the Samoyedic-speaking peoples of Siberia. The summary focuses primarily on the groups annual economic cycle of hunting, fishing, and reindeer breeding, clothing, food, dwellings, clan organization and marriage regulation, religious beliefs, and shamanism. It ends by listing major changes in diet, territorial organization, methods of hunting and other aspects of the culture as a result of settling the Nganasans into collective farms.
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1964 ; John Beierle ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. A. Popov
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 581a)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62018118
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoyeds