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The social organization of the Gilyak

Title: The social organization of the Gilyak / Lev Iakovlevich Shternberg ; edited with a foreword and afterword by Bruce Grant.
Author: Shternberg, Lev I︠A︡kovlevich, 1861-1927.
Publication: [New York] : American Museum of Natural History ; Seattle : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1999.

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Grant, Bruce, 1964-

Description

lvi, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"In 1905, the eminent dean of American anthropology, Franz Boas, commissioned a monograph on the lives of Sakhalin Island peoples from the young Russian "exile ethnographer," Lev Shternberg. Shternberg's The Social Organization of the Gilyak was to be the last ethnography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, exploring the origins of Amerindian peoples along both the Russian and American north Pacific rims." "The Social Organization of the Gilyak offers a rare portrait of a little documented part of the world and the belief systems of a people prior to the dramatic cultural re-education programs introduced under the Soviets. A striking illustration of the fortunes of political ideology, the book demonstrates how early Marxist kinship studies took a Pacific people and made them a hallmark of primitive communist life in the Russian imperial imagination." "In this first English edition, anthropologist Bruce Grant builds a fresh analysis of Shternberg's classic study, by adding a Foreword examining Shternberg's work and life, new glossaries, a Shternberg time line, maps, expository footnotes, archival notes, and an interview with one of Shternberg's former students."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 0065-9452 ; no. 82

Uniform Title

Sot︠s︡ialʹnai︠a︡ organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Gili︠a︡kov. English
Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 82.

Alternative Title

Sot︠s︡ialʹnai︠a︡ organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Gili︠a︡kov.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-272) and index.

Contents

Shternberg Time Line -- Foreword / Bruce Grant -- Introduction: Family and Clan -- The Gilyak Kinship System -- Gilyak Kinship in a Siberian Frame -- Norms of Sex and Marriage in Light of Classificatory Kinship -- Husbands and Wives -- Group Marriage, or, The Right to Sexual Relations among the Pu and Ang'rei Classes -- The Moral and Psychological Consequences of Sexual Norms -- The Genesis of Gilyak Marriage Rules and Kin Terms -- The Evolution of the Phratry -- Gilyak Cousin Marriage and Morgan's Hypothesis -- Morgan's Hypothesis and Other North Asian Peoples -- Sexual Life -- Marriage Rites Old and New -- Marriage Terminology and Traces of Matriliny -- The Clan -- What Holds the Clan Together? -- Relations between Clans -- Afterword: Afterlives and Afterworlds: Nivkhi on The Social Organization of the Gilyak, 1995 / Bruce Grant -- Social Organization in the Archives -- An Interview with Zakharii Efimovich Cherniakov.

ISBN

029597799X
9780295977997

LCCN

99221466

OCLC

ocm41382016
41382016
SCSB-573908

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library