Tales of the Yukaghir

This title presents tales of adventure and courage among the people of Eastern Siberia. First published in English in 1918 by the American Museum of Natural History in its series of "Anthropological Papers", the stories told here in "Tales of Yukaghir" were collected among Russianized natives of Eas [...]
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This title presents tales of adventure and courage among the people of Eastern Siberia. First published in English in 1918 by the American Museum of Natural History in its series of "Anthropological Papers", the stories told here in "Tales of Yukaghir" were collected among Russianized natives of Eastern Siberia at the end of the nineteenth-century while Bogaras was exiled into North-Eastern Siberia for revolutionary activities. These tales tell of kings, young heroes on horseback, and adventurous animals with varied powers, relating details of native life that clearly show their Russian or Turko-Mongol provenance. In addition to delighting audiences around the world, Bogoras' work in ethnography and ethnology proved valuable to the development of the field of linguistics.