essay
The Yukaghir: reindeer hunters in the Siberian tundra
Habitat, economy, and society, by C. Daryll Forde • New York • Published In 1963 • Pages: 101-106
By: Forde, Cyril Daryll.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief description of economic activities in remnant Yukaghir bands. The focus is on seasonal mobility in the search for valued resources, most notably wild reindeer and salmon.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Climate
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Diet
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Inter-community relations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yukaghir
- 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.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1895-1902
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Sakha Republic, northern Magadan Oblast, and western Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by C. Daryll Forde
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yukaghir