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The Nganasansessay 1964 • Popov, A. A.
Samoyed • Asia > North Asia
This article is a condensed general ethnographic description of the Nganasans culture prior to the Bolshevik revolution, with a brief section on changes brought about by the Soviet takeover. The Nganasans form the most northerly group among the Samoy...Consecration ritual for a blacksmith novice among the Yakutsarticle 1933 • Popov, A. A.
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This paper describes one ritual from the large unpublished Russian manuscript on religious beliefs and ceremonies of the Yakuts. According to an introductory footnote, all the speeches and incantations in the original manuscript, for which we have no...The old Yakut birch-bark yurtarticle 1949 • Popov, A. A.
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 Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. His work is a...Reindeer breeding among the Dolganarticle 1935 • Popov, A. A.
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This article presents very good information on the reindeer and reindeer herding activities of the Dolgan. Almost all aspects are covered: the care and herding of animals, their importance as a means of transportation, the use of their meat and hides...The Dolgansessay 1964 • Popov, A. A.
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a cultural and historical summary of about the Dolgans, containing a certain amount of Russian propaganda....Family life of the Dolgani peoplearticle 1946 • Popov, A. A.
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a monograph on the family cycle of the Dolgani, who are a Yakut-speaking people living northwest of Yakutskaya in the neighboring Taymyr OKRUG. The Dolgani are reindeer herders, a way of life heavily influenced by the Evenk. The monograph des...The NganasanBook 1966 • Popov, A. A. & Ristinen, Elaine K.
Samoyed • Asia > North Asia
During the mid 1930s the paucity of information on the Nganasan Samoyeds, who have been known and observed cursorily for over a hundred years but with little recorded data of scientific note, led the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sc...