book chapter
With the people of the Tundra
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag • Oslo, Norway • Published In 1938 • Pages:
By: Sverdrup, Harald Ulrich.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Reindeer Chukchee, describing customs, mode of life, religious beliefs, etc. Sverdrup was an oceanographer who gathered the data for this study while he was a member of Amundsen's expeditions. He lived among the Chukchee and the Lamuts during the winters of 1919-1920 and 1920-1921 while Amundsen's ship was caught in the polar ice off Aion Island. This is an excellent ethnographic study, even taking into consideration the fact that Sverdrup had no training as an ethnographer and no previous knowledge of the language. In the mid-1950s, Sverdrup was the director of the Norsk Polarinstitutt in Oslo.||This account of the Chukchee was first published as a section (pp.257-391) of Roald Amundsen's 'Nordostpassagen' (Kristiania: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1921) under the title 'Blandt rentjuksere og lamuter' (Among the Reindeer-Chukchi and the Lamuts). It was later issued as a separate book 'Hos Tundrafolket.' The author has made a manuscript translation into English and it is this manscript translation that has been excerpted for the HRAF. A copy of the original book in Norwegian was not available in this country and therefore the pagination in the Files follows that of the manuscript. A number of interesting photographs accompanied the manuscript but they could not be included in the Files at the time this source was processed. It is not clear whether these photographs were taken from Amundsen's or Sverdrup's book. One map and two pages of drawings have been reproduced for the Files.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chukchee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- Patricia H. Snyder ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1919-1920, 1920-1921
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1919-1920 and 1920-1921
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Reindeer Chuckchee; Aion Island, eastern Siberia, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harald Ulrich Sverdrup
- This document consists of excerpts.
- Translation of: Hos Tundra-folket.
- Translated by the author.
- The original Norwegian text is not included
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chukchi