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9780700712908

Yeniseian Peoples and Languages: A History of Yeniseian Studies with an Annotated Bibliography and a Source Guide

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    9780700712908

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    0700712909

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-14
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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Summary

The Kets of Central Siberia are perhaps the most enigmatic of Siberia's aboriginal tribes. Today numbering barely 1,100 souls living in several small villages on the middle reaches of the Yenisei, the Kets have retained much of their ancient culture, as well as their unique language. Genetic studies of the Ket hint at an ancient affinity with Tibetans, Burmese, and other peoples of peoples of South East Asia not shared by any other Siberian people. The Ket language, which is unrelated to any other living Siberian tongue, also appears to be a relic of a bygone linguistic landscape of Inner Asia. Because language isolates such as Ket are of special value to scholars of the original peopling of the continents, linguists have recently attempted to link Ket with North Caucasian, Sino- Tibetan, Burushaski, Basque and Na Dene. None of these links have been proved to the satisfaction of all linguists, and the research continues both in Russia and abroad.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
Maps
xxvii
Part I The History of Yeniseian Studies 1(17)
Part II Annotated Bibliography of Publications 18(317)
Part III Guide to Unpublished Sources 335
Dissertations
335
Archives
341
Other Unpublished Materials
349
Museum Collections
352
Internet Resources
356
Part IV Classified Index
Yeniseian languages
357
Historical linguistics
357
Extinct Yeniseian languages
362
Typology
365
Structure of modern (Imbat) Ket
366
Yeniseian peoples
376
General information
376
Early (pre-1865) sources on Yeniseian peoples
376
Demographics
377
Physical anthropology, genetics
377
Origins, links with prehistoric cultures and peoples
377
Yeniseian interaction with other Asian peoples
379
History of Yeniseian-Russian interaction
380
Native rights
381
Ket ethnography
381
Fictional works depicting Yeniseian peoples or cultures
386
Maps
387
Drawings or photographs of Kets or Ket culture
387
Data on Yeniseian studies
388
History of scholarship
388
Bibliographies
389
Biographic information on scholars
389
Published travel notes or data on expeditions
390
Descriptions of archival sources
390
Descriptions of museum collections
391

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