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The distinguished Russian archeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov's
study reveals how a field archeologist goes about determining and
writing prehistory. Over the course of his career, Okladnikov and
his wife Vera Zaporozhskaya travelled across Siberia from the Lena
River in the north to the Amur River in the south excavating
archaeological sites. During that time Aleksei and Vera found and
interpreted the rock art of the vast region from the Paleolithic
Era to the present day. Relying on petroglyphs and pictographs left
on cliffs and boulders, Okladnikov lays out in detail and
straightforward language the prehistory of Siberia by "reading"
these artifacts. This book permits the past to be told in its own
words: the art portrayed on the cliffs of Siberia.
Alexander Nefedkin's highly original new book, translated by the
noted American scholar Richard L. Bland, is devoted to the
understudied topic of the military and military-political history
of Chukotka, the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation,
separated from Alaska by Bering Strait. This study is based on
primary sources, including archeological, folkloric, and
documentary evidence, dating from ancient times to the cessation of
conflict in the territory in the nineteenth century. Nefedkin's
analysis surveys the military history of these eras, reassessing
well known topics and bringing to light previously unknown events.
Franz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary
anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest.
This groundbreaking study analyses what Boas did with local Native
American legends passed down by the region's tribal groups. Three
translations, originally published in 1888 and 1895, are presented
here and constitute Boas's early attempts to define the cultural
history of Pacific Northwest tribes. Using definitive plots,
details, and incidents from a large collection of myths,
comparative myths from other indigenous cultures, and a statistical
method of multivariant analysis, Boas not only defined the
historical relations of the regional tribes but also the role of
diffusion in those relations.
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Pottery Craft of the Yakut
Richard L. Bland, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya, Natalia K. Danilova
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R3,669
Discovery Miles 36 690
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This book offered to the reader's attention is an ethnographic
study devoted to the traditional pottery of Yakutia. The author, A.
A. Savvin, collected materials for the book during field research
in 1939–1941, when ceramic tableware had largely already lost its
former role in the household way of the Yakuts. But the skills for
its manufacture were still preserved in certain localities. Savvin
managed to document the last "living" evidence of a craft that had
a centuries-old history and established traditions. It is
noteworthy that the research conducted by Savvin was a scientific
project in the modern sense of the term. It was carefully planned
and executed in accordance with a pre-written program, which is
also included in this edition. The sources of information were not
only direct observations of the working processes of the production
of ceramic tableware but also conversations-interviews with
potters, memoirs of representatives of the older generation. A
special layer of research consisted of materials of folklore, folk
beliefs, and customs related to pottery.
This volume contains five chapters that present highly original
research on Siberia's unique history by five Russian scholars. The
volume is edited by Prof. Elena A. Okladnikova, a faculty member of
the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The articles include discussions of seafaring along the Siberian
coast, ethnolinguistic considerations, the worldview of inner Asian
nomads, and ethnocultural understandings of civilization
crossroads.
Primitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can
be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural
context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of
the integral whole of ancient society.
In Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov's Era, 1799-1818, Andrei
Val'terovich Grinev examines the sociohistorical origins of the
former Russian colonies in Alaska, or "Russian America." The
formation of the Russian-American Company and the concentration in
the hands of Aleksandr Baranov of all the power in south and
southeast Alaska's Russian settlements marked a new stage in the
history of Russian America. Expanding and strengthening Russian
possessions in the New World as much as possible, Baranov acted in
favor of his country before himself, in accordance with the
principle "people for the empire, and not the empire for the
people." Russian Colonization of Alaska is the first comprehensive
study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization
based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography.
Grinev's study elaborates the social, political, spiritual,
ideological, personal, and psychological aspects of Russian
America, accounting for the idiosyncrasies of the natural
environment, competition from other North American empires, and
challenges from Alaska Natives and individual colonial diplomats.
Rather than being simply a continuation of Russians' colonization
of Siberia, the colonization of Alaska was instead part of
overarching Russian and global history.
In this third volume of Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei
Val'terovich Grinev examines the final period in the history of
Russian America, from naval officers' coming to power in the
colonies (1818) to the sale of Alaska to the United States (1867).
During this time, in addition to the extraction of furs, other
kinds of modern production continued to develop in Alaska,
including shipbuilding, cutting and mining of timber and coal, and
harvesting fish and ice for export. Grinev's definitive volume
explores how certain economic successes could not prevent the
growth of crisis phenomena. Due to the low competitiveness of
products and the distributive nature of the economy, the Russian
colonial system could not compete with the dynamically developing
Anglo-American capitalist colonization. Russian Colonization of
Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and
evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political
economy, history, and ethnography. Grinev's study elaborates the
social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and
psychological aspects of Russian America, and accounts for the
idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other
North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial
diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a
continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was
instead part of overarching Russian and global history.
The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia: The History and Results of
Research in 1940-1980 combines details of discoveries of
Palaeolithic sites in a vast region of Northeast Asia (covering
mostly the northeastern part of modern Russia), and meticulous
analysis of hypotheses, ideas, and concepts related to the
Northeast Asian Palaeolithic. Written in the 1980s - 1990s, it is
based on the author's own experience and analysis of published and
archival sources. The volume is especially important for better
understanding the development of knowledge on this subject, closely
related to the issue of the peopling of the New World. The author
presents details on the conceptual issues developed by Soviet
archaeologists, not previously available to the international
scholarly community. This book is for archaeologists,
ethnographers, and historians of science in the USSR and worldwide.
It has a special interest for students of the peopling of the
Americas.
In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinev
examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies
in Alaska, or "Russian America," between 1741 and 1799. Beginning
with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and
Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov's discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian
Islands and ending with the formation of the Russian-American
Company's monopoly of the Russian colonial endeavor in the
Americas, Russian Colonization of Alaska offers a definitive,
revisionist examination of Tsarist Russia's foray into the imperial
contest in North America. Russian Colonization of Alaska is the
first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of
Russian colonization based on research into political economy,
history, and ethnography. Grin v's study elaborates the social,
political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological
aspects of Russian America. He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies
of the natural environment, competition from other North American
empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial diplomats. The
colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a continuation of
the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was instead part of
overarching Russian and global history.
This volume makes available a vast amount of research on the Stone
Age of Chukotka to a non-Russian speaking audience. Margarita
Kiryak surveys the history of archaeology in the region and
introduces the principal archaeological sites, before explaining
her model for the periodization of the Stone Age complexes,
comparative analysis of palaeolithic sites in neighbouring regions,
and a discussion of problems of ethnic identification. Appendices
offer illustrations of a rich variety of artefacts from the lithic
assemblages.
The Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in
Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met
non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the
Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex
connections between the Tlingits and their Russian neighbors, as
well as British and American voyagers and traders, are the subject
of this classic work, first published in Russian and now revised
and updated for this English-language edition. Andrei Val'terovich
Grinev bases his account on hundreds of documents from archives in
Russia and the United States; he also relies on official reports,
the notes of travelers, the investigations of historians and
ethnographers, museum collections, atlases, illustrations, and
photographs. Grinev outlines a picture of traditional Tlingit
society before contact with Europeans and then analyzes
interactions between the Tlingit people and newcomers. He examines
the changes that took place in the Tlingits' traditional material
and spiritual culture, as well as military affairs, during the
Russian-American period. He also considers the dynamics of the
Tlingits' population, the increase in interethnic marriage, their
relationships with European immigrants, and their ethnology.
Arranged in chronological order and by region, each of these
studies is written by a specialist who has participated in some or
all of the archaeological expeditions reported here. They show not
just the unanticipated richness of the archaeology of the Russian
Far East but, more important, the contributions these sites can
make to the archaeology of the region and of the world.
Before the research of quite recent years, the Incipient Jomon
pottery vessels of Japan had clear claim to the distinction of
being "first in the world," the present work shows that it may be
quite some time now before any question of "first" can be resolved,
as continuing discoveries show quite comparably early pottery
appearing over an increasingly broad front in eastern Asia. This
book will be of interest to a broad cross-section of readers: those
interested in the history, technology, and functions of pottery;
those who will appreciate the attention it pays to ecology, context
and process in the innovation and diversification of traditions;
those who seek to expand the utility of pottery as a tool in
archaeological synthesis and interpretation; and those who pursue
specific interests in the cultural history of eastern Asia. It also
offers the international community an interesting window on some of
the ways in which Russian archaeologists conceptualize their
subject matter.
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