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Reindeer breeding among the Dolgan
Sovetskaia Etnografiia • (4-5) • Published In 1935 • Pages: 184-205
By: Popov, A. A., Ward, Norbert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents very good information on the reindeer and reindeer herding activities of the Dolgan. Almost all aspects are covered: the care and herding of animals, their importance as a means of transportation, the use of their meat and hides as food and clothing, the sleds used in transportation, and the different kinds of harness used. There are also good illustrations showing these types of sleds, harness, and saddles.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yakut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Alice McCloskey ; 1953
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. A. Popov
- Translation from the Russian of: Olenvodstvo u dolgan
- Translated for the HRAF files by Norbert Ward
- Omitted from the file: Figures 1, 4,5, 11, 12, 12
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49034716
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yakut (Turkic people)