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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Riasanovsky, Valentin Aleksandrovich
Title:
Fundamental principles of Mongolian law
Published By: Original publisher
London: K. Paul, Trench, Trnbner & Co., Ltd.. 1937.
338 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
[by] Aleksandrovich Valentin Riasanovsky
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2006. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Mongolia (AH01)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
History (175);
Legal norms (671);
Offenses and sanctions (680);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a scholarly historical-ethnographic analysis of the
major records of Mongol Law, extending from earliest accounts of the Great Mongol Empire to
the period of Autonomous Outer Mongolia (1911-1924). Additional information on the period
1924-1936 is given in the Introduction. The contents of the Great Yassa (Yassak) of
Chinggis Khan and his Maxims, the Tsaadjin-Bichik, the Mongol Oirat Regulations of 1640
with subsequent modifications, the Khalkha-Djirom, the Codes of 1789, 1815, etc. are
discussed in detail as stages in the evolution of Mongol society, with special emphasis on
the basic cultural institutions of the Northern Mongols (Khalkha), Oirat, Buryat, and
Kalmyk. The author attempts to determine what elements of Mongol Law were derived from
custom, from decree or outside influences, examining in the latter connection the
reciprocal influences of Chinese-Mongolian and Mongolian-Russian legal concepts and
institutions. Treatment of the materials studied tends to be somewhat diffuse. An extensive
bibliography is supplied throughout the text and at the end of the book.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
5
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
ah01-005
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliography
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
No date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Social Scientist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Jack Crane ; 1955
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1206-1924
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
China, Mongolia, and Russia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Mongols--Law/Mongols--History
