Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia: Traditional Stories of Aboriginal Peoples of the Chukchi Peninsula - Softcover

Alexander B. Dolitsky; Henry N. Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965389138 ISBN 13: 9780965389136

Publisher: Alaska Siberia Research Center, 2000

Synopsis

A creative compilation of traditional stories of the aboriginal peoples of the Chukchi Peninsula. Fifty-nine Asiatic Eskimo tales and legends make this book both educational and entertaining. This book endeavors to relate not only the major genre and subject matter of the Asiatic Eskimos' narrative folklore but also the specific aspects of the folklore of each people of the Eskimo-Chukchi regions. The factual material presented in the collection will be interesting to those fond of oral traditions, as well as to the specialists in comparative and typological research in anthropology and folklore. This volume is a translation from Russian into English. Fifty-five stories (1-55) are translated from Fairy Tales and Myths of the People of Chukotka and Kamchatka (Shazki I Mify Narodov Chukotki I Kamchatki) compiled by G. Menovshchikov and edited by E. Meletinsky (1974), and four stories (56-59) are translated from the New Life of Ancient Legends of the Chukotka (Novaya Zhizn' Drevnikh Legen

Edition details

• Publisher: Alaska Siberia Research Center
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965389138
• ISBN 13: 9780965389136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148