The Aborigines of Sakhalin

The Aborigines of Sakhalin
Author: Alfred F. Majewicz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 822
Release: 1998-09-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110109283

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

The Aborigines of Sakhalin

The Aborigines of Sakhalin
Author: Werner Winter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110820765

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore 2

Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore 2
Author: Werner Winter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110895684

Volume 3 is devoted exclusively to B. Piłsudski's Ainu-related materials, for their most part previously unpublished. In addition, it comprises Piłsudski's research reports on his expeditions, a superb collection of fifty prayers in Ainu as well as texts and melodies recovered from Piłsudski's famous wax-cylinder recordings of Ainu-folklore of 1902-1903. The bibliographies printed in volume 1 are extensively enhanced. Abundant illustrative material is included.

Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917

Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917
Author: Andrew A. Gentes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000378594

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia’s largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the tsarist state’s failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian imperialism in East Asia and Russia’s acquisition of Sakhalin Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book’s conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons and their relationship to state and society.

Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin Island
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0714545619

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

International Bibliography of Anthropology

International Bibliography of Anthropology
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2001-11-22
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415262354

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