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This paper discusses indigenous cinema from Siberia and how this media is being used by the Siberian minorities as a means to (re)build their national identity after the collapse of USSR.  It focuses on films from Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and the Rep... see more

In his exhaustive study of ‘shamanism’ among the Altaic peoples in Southern Siberia, the renowned Soviet ethnographer Leonid P. Potapov contends that ‘under the present conditions there are no remnants or survivals of Shamanism as such left in Altai’. Wha... see more

African Smiths Cultural-historical and sociological problems illuminated by studies among the Tuareg and by comparative analysisIn KUML 1957 in connection with a description of slavery among the Tuareg, I also gave a short survey of this great Berber past... see more

African Smiths Cultural-historical and sociological problems illuminated by studies among the Tuareg and by comparative analysisIn KUML 1957 in connection with a description of slavery among the Tuareg, I also gave a short survey of this great Berber past... see more

In literature about missionary activities in western Siberia in the 19th – early 20th century, the natives are seen as passive recipients of the missionaries’ initiative, as victims of their endeavours. This article intends to present another view of the ... see more

In Yakut folklore studies, depending on the territory of existence, there are three traditions of narrative: Central, Viluysk and Northern. In modern science, the phenomenon of stable regional features of the plot motives of the Yakut olonkho is still rel... see more

The Lena River Delta, largest in the Arctic, occupies 32,000 km2. It has a complicated structure caused by neotectonic block-movements, which formed an island archipelago with elevation differences as large as 60 m of distinct geological units. The modern... see more

Horned Finns. The ‘cornuti Finni’ mentioned in the Historia Norwegiae have not found their explanation, because the Latin word cornu, from which the adjective is derived, has been understood in the strict sense of ‘horn on the head’. The Latin word, howev... see more

This is the first and most concise biography of a Russian émigré gay poet, Valerii Pereleshin (1913-1992). The biographer, Olga Bakich, takes on the self-described role of an “accompanist” (xiv) to this prolific, yet understudied poet by painstakingly ill... see more

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