Folklore of the Nenets

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Fol`klor Nentsev

V Zapisiakh 1911, 1937, 1946, 1953, 1965-1987 Godov

[ Folklore of the Nenets : In records collected in 1911, 1937, 1946, 1953, 1965-1987]

Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2001
504 p
Serie: Pamiatniki Fol`klora Narodov Sibiri i Dal`nego Vostoka 23
Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm. w/record
ISBN: 5020318108
Language: Russian

This is the twenty-third volume in the series on the folklore of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East. The collection includes texts of forty-two pieces of Nenets foklore. The Nenets are the most numerous among the aboriginal peoples of the Russian Far North. This people belongs to the Finn-Ugric language group. They lived under a tribal system until the 1930s. The principal religion was Shamanism. Genres of Nenets folklore include: myths, etiological and cosmogonical legends, fairy tales, epic songs, drinking songs, Shamanic chants, children`s song-teaser, and more. All of them are presented in this volume. It includes both new materials and previously published, but not widely available material. Indices, bibliography, comments. English summary. Parallel text in Nenets and Russian. Previous volumes from the series are also available.

Subjects

» Humanities » Folklore, Folk Art, and Folklore Studies

» Russian Federation: Regions and Federated Republics » Siberia, the Far East and the Far North

» The Jews » Small Indigenous Nations of Siberia

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