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The Gilyaks: an ethnographic sketch
Russische revue • 21 • Published In 1882 • Pages: 97-130, 222-254
By: Seeland, Nicolas, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Although the author does not give the dates for his stay in the Amur country among the Gilyak, he spent four years there, and he states that his material is based on his own observations and also on information obtained from Russians who were familiar with the Gilyak. This, he says, is particularly true of the information on the Sakhalin-Gilyak whom he did not visit, for which he is indebted to Dr. A. Lebedev. His article is a completely ethnographical account which is both unbiased and complete for the amount of space which it covers. As the sub-headings to a certain extent indicate, the information deals with: the geographical distribution and population; geography; food and cooking; clothing; tobacco use; transportation methods; occupation (hunting, fishing, and household tasks); weapons; marriage customs and child rearing; position of women; morality and crime; personality traits; intellectual development; time computation; council, jurisdiction, duels, prosecution of criminals and inheritance laws; economic and social conditions; amusements and festivals; burial customs; religion and belief in the afterlife; sicknesses and medical care; and, finally, the Gilyak language.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Diet
- Animal transport
- Domesticated animals
- Postures
- Weapons
- Regulation of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Polygamy
- Gender status
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Childbirth
- Ethics
- Inheritance
- Rest days and holidays
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nivkh
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- 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
- Ruth Heffner ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870-1882
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- lower Amur River, adjacent seacoast, and Sakhalin Island, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nicolas Seeland
- Translation of: [Die Ghiliaken. Eine ethnographische Skizze.]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Mrs. Frieda Schütze
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 93009832
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gilyaks