book chapter
Of the nation of the Koreki
history of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the countries adjacent • Glocester • Published In 1764 • Pages: 222-234
By: Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, Grieve, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Krasheninnikov, who later became a professor of botany and natural history at the Russian Academy of Sciences, was a student of natural history when he was assigned as an assistant to three professors sent out in 1733 by the Russian government to gather information on the geography, the natural history, and the ethnology of Siberia and Kamchatka. Krasheninnikov alone reached Kamchatka. This chapter deals almost exclusively with the Reindeer Koryak, since the author asserts that the Maritime Koryak are nearly identical in their way of living with the Kamchadal. Hence, throughout this chapter, whenever the author says 'the Koryak' or 'they' he is speaking of the Reindeer Koryak. This seems to be true even when 'they' immediately follows a sentence mentioning the 'fixed' (Maritime) Koryak. In addition to an ethnological survey of the Reindeer Koryak, Krasheninnikov gives an interesting outline of the relations between the Reindeer and Maritime Koryak.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Koryaks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Carol Cerf ; 1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1736-1740
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1733
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kamchatka Province, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stepan Krasheninnikov ; translated from the Russian by James Grieve
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 03004225
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koryaks