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The Nganasans

peoples of SiberiaChicago And LondonPublished 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