FIELD TRIP TO TAZ SELKUPS: FIELDNOTES OF 1979

Baulo Arkadij Viktorovich

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2017-1-124-135

Information About Author:

Baulo A. V., Doctor of History, senior research fellow. Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science. Pr. Akad. Lavrentieva, 17, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090. E-mail: bau194@yandex.ru

The field notes result from the field project to the Northern Selkup (Taz) communities in Krasnoselkup region of Tyumen oblast in the summer of 1979. The project team of the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science of USSR lead by G. I. Pelikh collected data in the villages of Krasnoselkup and Tol'ka, visiting a set of local camps along the rivers Taz and Khudoseja. The field notes shed light onto the aspects of traditional economy, material and spiritual culture of Selkus: settlement patterns, land use, rules of hunting and fishing, burial rituals, inheritance, family life, court of local lord, types of punishment and other. The notes also include a set of fairytales.

Keywords: Selkup, settlement, traditional economy, family, rituals, heritage

References:

Baulo A.V. Tipy nadmogil'nyh sooruzhenij u tazovskih sel'kupov // Jetnografija Severnoj Azii. – Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1980. – S. 185–190.

Pelih G.I. Sel'kupy v XVII v. – Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1981. – 176 s.

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Issue: 1, 2017

Series of issue: Issue 1

Rubric: REPORTS

Pages: 124 — 135

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