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The Samoyed in their domestic and social lifebook chapter 1847 • Islavin, Vladimīr & Wise, Sheldon
Nenets • Asia > North Asia
In spite of the fact that this book was written more than a century ago it contains remarkably correct and shrewd observations on an objective level about the social and economic life of the S...The old Yakut birch-bark yurtarticle 1949 • Popov, A. A. & Wise, Sheldon
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
Popov has based his information on the Yakut birch-bark yurt upon his own observations made in the Vilyuysk District in 1924 and upon the collections of the Museum of the Ethnographic Institut...Customs of the natives of Tobolsk Provinceessay 1876 • Samokvasov, D. (Dmitriĭ) & Wise, Sheldon
Nenets • Asia > North Asia
The material in this source was edited by Samokvasov who used information from contemporary [i.e., ca. 1875] writers as well as that obtained about 1823 by a special commission supported by th...A collection of customary law of the Siberian nativesBook 1876 • Samokvasov, D. IA. & Wise, Sheldon
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a compilation of offenses against the Yakut person and his or her property that are punishable by the society and the sanctions imposed on the offender. This is not a primary source; i...Three years in the Yakut Territorybook chapter 1890 • Priklonskii, V. L. & Wise, Sheldon
Chukchee • Asia > North Asia
The information here, written by an excellent ethnographer, is actually a brief culture summary of this group....