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The Nivkh (Gilyak) of Sakhalin and the Lower Amur
Arctic anthropology • 10 (1) • Published In 1973 • Pages: 112
By: Black, Lydia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book describes traditional Nivkh culture and society based on a wide variety of secondary documents in English and Russian languages. Topics discussed include economic activities, social organization, kinship and marriage, religion and community rituals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Organized ceremonial
- Revelation and divination
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnosociology
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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; 2008
- 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
- 1850-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- lower Amur River and northern Sakhalin Island, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lydia Black
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gilyak