The peoples of northeast Asia through time : precolonial ethnic and cultural processes along the coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait /

"The focus of Richard Zgusta's The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeast Asia, including the Ainu, the 'Paleoasiatic' peoples, and the Asiatic Eskimo. Most chapters begin with a summary of each culture at th...

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Main Author: Zgusta, Richard, 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Historical methods and northeast Asian coastal cultures
  • Hokkaido Island : Ainu
  • Sakhalin Island : Nivkh
  • Lower Amur Valley : the Amur complex (Nanay, Ulcha, Orochi, Udehe, Ulta)
  • Amur and Okhotsk Tungus (Negidal, Eastern Ewenki, Okhotsk Ewen)
  • Northeast Asian tundra and taiga : the Yukagir-Chuwan (Northern Paleoasiatic) complex
  • Kamchatka Peninsula : the Itelmen-Kamchadal complex
  • Far northeast of Asia : the Koryak-Chukchi (Northeastern Paleoasiatic) complex
  • Western Bering Strait : Asiatic Eskimo
  • Cultural connections
  • Conclusion: Pacific northeast Asia in time and space.