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Early Art Of The Northern Far East - The Stone Age (Hardcover): Richard L. Bland Early Art Of The Northern Far East - The Stone Age (Hardcover)
Richard L. Bland; National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Peoples of Ancient Siberia - An Archeological History (Hardcover): Aleksei P Okladnikov The Peoples of Ancient Siberia - An Archeological History (Hardcover)
Aleksei P Okladnikov; Foreword by Elena A. Okladnikova; Translated by Richard L. Bland, Yaroslav V Kuzmin
R3,657 Discovery Miles 36 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Warfare in the Russian Arctic - The Military History of Chukotka from the Early First Millennium to the Nineteenth Century... Warfare in the Russian Arctic - The Military History of Chukotka from the Early First Millennium to the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Alexander K. Nefedkin; Translated by Richard L. Bland
R3,657 Discovery Miles 36 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 - Place, Myth, and History: Ann G. Simonds, Richard L. Bland, Don Dumond Franz Boas in Translation - Place, Myth, and History
Ann G. Simonds, Richard L. Bland, Don Dumond
R3,658 Discovery Miles 36 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Pottery Craft of the Yakut: Richard L. Bland, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya, Natalia K. Danilova Pottery Craft of the Yakut
Richard L. Bland, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya, Natalia K. Danilova
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Homo Eurasicus - New Scholarly Views of Siberia and Inner Asia: Elena A. Okladnikova, Richard L. Bland Homo Eurasicus - New Scholarly Views of Siberia and Inner Asia
Elena A. Okladnikova, Richard L. Bland
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Oldest Art of Siberia - Forms, Symbols, Technologies (Hardcover): Liudmila V. Lbova, Pavel V. Volkov, Richard L. Bland The Oldest Art of Siberia - Forms, Symbols, Technologies (Hardcover)
Liudmila V. Lbova, Pavel V. Volkov, Richard L. Bland
R3,658 Discovery Miles 36 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Russian Colonization of Alaska - Baranov's Era, 1799-1818 (Hardcover): Andrei Val'terovich Grinev Russian Colonization of Alaska - Baranov's Era, 1799-1818 (Hardcover)
Andrei Val'terovich Grinev; Translated by Richard L. Bland
R1,621 R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Save R157 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Russian Colonization of Alaska - From Heyday to Sale, 1818-1867 (Hardcover): Andrei Val'terovich Grinev Russian Colonization of Alaska - From Heyday to Sale, 1818-1867 (Hardcover)
Andrei Val'terovich Grinev; Translated by Richard L. Bland
R1,634 R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Save R157 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 (Paperback): Vitaly A. Kashin The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia - The History and Results of Research in 1940-1980 (Paperback)
Vitaly A. Kashin; Translated by Richard L. Bland, Yaroslav V Kuzmin
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Russian Colonization of Alaska - Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799 (Hardcover, Volume 1): Andrei... Russian Colonization of Alaska - Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799 (Hardcover, Volume 1)
Andrei Val'terovich Grinev; Translated by Richard L. Bland
R1,843 Discovery Miles 18 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Stone Age of Chukotka Northeastern Siberia (New Materials) (Paperback, New): Margarita A Kiryak (Dikova) The Stone Age of Chukotka Northeastern Siberia (New Materials) (Paperback, New)
Margarita A Kiryak (Dikova); Edited by Richard L. Bland, Yaroslav V Kuzmin
R2,732 Discovery Miles 27 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867 (Paperback): Andrei Val'terovich Grinev The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867 (Paperback)
Andrei Val'terovich Grinev; Translated by Richard L. Bland, Katerina G. Solovjova
R664 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R95 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Archaeology of the Russian Far East (Paperback, New): Richard L. Bland, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Yaroslav V Kuzmin, Sarah M Nelson Archaeology of the Russian Far East (Paperback, New)
Richard L. Bland, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Yaroslav V Kuzmin, Sarah M Nelson
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Prehistoric Pottery Making of the Russian Far East (Paperback): Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya Prehistoric Pottery Making of the Russian Far East (Paperback)
Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya; Edited by Richard L. Bland, C. Melvin Aikens
R1,801 Discovery Miles 18 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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