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Copy with a gift inscription from the \"Zhalyn\" publishing house on the endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1976 album is a definitive visual record of the rich ethnographic heritage of Kazakhstan, masterfully captured by Aisha Galimbayeva (1917–2008), the first female professional artist of Soviet Kazakhstan and a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of nomadic aesthetics and textile traditions, including the arrangement of detailed color plates and sketches that document regional variations in Kazakh dress, embroidery patterns, and jewelry. Galimbayeva’s dual expertise as both a painter and a cinematic costume designer (notably for the film Abai’s Songs) allowed her to present these costumes with both historical accuracy and artistic soul.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents the mid-century academic effort to preserve Central Asian decorative arts within a high-quality publishing format. The introductory articles by Sara Yesova and Natalya Orazbayeva provide essential historical context on the evolution of Kazakh felt and silk crafts. This copy, preserved in its original dust jacket and bearing a presentation inscription from the publisher, is a significant bibliographical rarity for collectors of Orientalia, costume history, and the fine arts of Central Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44251060961322,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_0795.jpg?v=1775990206"},{"product_id":"abkhazian-tales-abkhazskie-skazki-compiled-edited-and-translated-from-the-abkhaz-by-kh-s-bgazhba-illustrations-by-a-and-m-beletsky-sukhumi-1959-in-russian","title":"Abkhazian Tales (Abkhazskie skazki) \/ Compiled, edited and translated from the Abkhaz by Kh. S. Bgazhba; illustrations by A. and M. Beletsky. Sukhumi, 1959. 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Блок крепкий, шитьё прочное, текст и иллюстрации полностью читаемы.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eSukhumi : Abkhazian State Publishing House [Abgiz], 1959. — 352 pp., illustrations.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's pictorial paper-over-boards binding richly stamped in stylised Caucasian decorative style. Slightly enlarged octavo format (approximately 175×235 mm). With black-and-white in-text illustrations by the artists A. and M. Beletsky.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: overall even age-toning and browning of the pictorial boards, scattered spotting and light soiling to front and rear covers, rubbing and creasing to corners and edges, spine fully preserved with minor wear at head and tail. Text-block firm, sewing sound, text and illustrations fully legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA handsomely produced provincial Soviet edition of considerable bibliographic and literary interest, gathering Abkhaz folk tales, hero-legends and animal fables compiled, edited and rendered into Russian by Khukhut Solomonovich Bgazhba (1914–1995), the foundational figure of twentieth-century Abkhaz philology, long-time director of the D. I. Gulia Abkhaz Institute of Language, Literature and History, and one of the principal codifiers of the modern Abkhaz literary language. Particular interest attaches to the volume's literary editor: Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (1929–2016), credited on the title-page as редактор. In 1959 Iskander, then aged thirty, was at the very beginning of his literary career — five years before he would publish his first book of verse and a full decade before \"Sandro of Chegem\" (Сандро из Чегема) would establish him as one of the most important Russian-language prose writers of the second half of the twentieth century. The Sukhumi imprint Abgiz (Абхазское государственное издательство) was the principal publisher of the Abkhazian ASSR, responsible for both Abkhaz-language and Russian-language editions issued from the regional centre on the Black Sea coast; its print runs were comparatively small and its books are difficult to locate outside the Caucasus. The book sits at the productive intersection of Soviet folklore-collecting (the great post-war effort to publish the oral literatures of the smaller peoples of the USSR in Russian translation) and Abkhaz cultural self-fashioning, and is sought after both by collectors of Caucasian ethnographic and folkloric material and, with rapidly growing interest, by collectors of early Iskanderiana.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44292728520746,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1867.jpg?v=1777319225"},{"product_id":"v-v-bunak-m-f-nesturkh-ya-ya-roginsky-anthropology-a-short-course-antropologiya-kratkii-kurs-1941-in-russian","title":"V. V. Bunak, M. F. Nesturkh, Ya. Ya. Roginsky. Anthropology: A Short Course (Antropologiya. Kratkii kurs). 1941. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eБунак В. В., Нестурх М. Ф., Рогинский Я. Я. 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Text-block firm, leaves and illustrations fully legible throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive Soviet university textbook in physical anthropology, prepared by the three towering figures of the discipline as it had been built up under Soviet conditions during the inter-war decades. Viktor Valerianovich Bunak (1891–1979), the volume's editor and principal architect, was the founder of academic physical anthropology in the USSR, the long-serving head of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Moscow University, and the author of the standard Soviet methodological texts on craniometry and somatology. Mikhail Fedorovich Nesturkh (1895–1979) was the leading Soviet specialist on primate evolution and human origins; Yakov Yakovlevich Roginsky (1895–1986), one of the principal twentieth-century theorists of race, was the originator (with Bunak) of the polycentric theory of human racial differentiation and a tenacious critic of Western racial typology and of the polygenist tradition. The volume is a document of profound historical interest beyond its disciplinary content. Signed for printing in October 1940 and released in the spring of 1941 — that is, in the months immediately preceding the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union — it represents the most fully developed Soviet response to National-Socialist racial science, opening with a preface that explicitly identifies \"the attempt to pervert anthropological data in the spirit of 'racial theory'\" as the central distorting tendency of contemporary international anthropology and proposing in its place a programme grounded in Engels's theory of the role of labour in the becoming-human of the primate, in Darwinian evolution, and in the conception of race as an historical rather than a metaphysical category. The four parts of the work — anthropogenesis (Nesturkh), merology, somatology and the analysis of human races (Roginsky) — are illustrated throughout with fine plates including the famous synoptic plate of human racial types reproduced in many later Soviet handbooks. As an uncensored 1941 first edition, the volume preserves the Bunak–Roginsky framework before the political reorganisations of Soviet anthropology in the late 1940s and early 1950s; as a textbook in the original cloth, it is uncommon today, and it is sought after by historians of science, by collectors of Soviet anti-Nazi publishing on the eve of the war, and by working physical and biological anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300690751530,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2135.jpg?v=1777502607"},{"product_id":"konakov-n-d-kotov-o-v-ethnoareal-groups-of-the-komi-formation-and-contemporary-ethnocultural-state-etnoarealnye-gruppy-komi-1991-in-russian","title":"Konakov, N. D., Kotov, O. V. Ethnoareal Groups of the Komi: Formation and Contemporary Ethnocultural State (Etnoareal'nye gruppy komi). 1991. 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Five chapters examine the traditional economy and ethnocultural stereotypes of the Komi people as a whole; the formation of distinct ethnoareal groups through processes of economic adaptation to varied ecological niches; material culture as a criterion of group differentiation; the social structure of established stable ethnoareal Komi groups; and the ethnic self-consciousness of the ethnoareal groups. Appendices provide supporting materials. Published in 1991 - the final year of the Soviet Union - at a moment when ethnographic scholarship on indigenous peoples of Russia was beginning to break free of Soviet ideological constraints, and questions of ethnic identity and self-consciousness were acquiring new urgency. The Komi Scientific Centre in Syktyvkar, through whose Academic Council the book was approved, is the principal institution for the study of Komi history, language, and culture. Of interest to researchers in Finno-Ugric studies, Soviet and Russian ethnography, indigenous peoples of Russia, and the ethnohistory of the northeastern European Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44346700988458,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3527.jpg?v=1778473006"},{"product_id":"khakimzianov-f-epigraphic-monuments-of-volga-bulgaria-and-their-language-epigraficheskie-pamiatniki-volzhskoi-bulgarii-i-ikh-iazyk-1987-in-russian","title":"Khakimzianov, F. Epigraphic Monuments of Volga Bulgaria and Their Language (Epigraficheskie pamiatniki Volzhskoi Bulgarii i ikh iazyk). 1987. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eХакимзянов, Фарид Сабирзянович. Эпиграфические памятники Волжской Булгарии и их язык \/ отв. ред. чл.-корр. АН СССР Э.Р. Тенишев ; АН СССР, Казанский филиал, Ин-т яз., лит. и истории им. Г. 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A substantial appendix reproduces photographs and ink rubbings of the monuments alongside transcriptions and Russian translations, supplemented by an index of personal names, a gazetteer of findspots, and a bibliography. The book thus functions simultaneously as a linguistic monograph and a primary source publication, placing the edited texts directly before the specialist reader. The z\/r distinction - central to 20th-century debates on the classification of Bulgar and its relationship to modern Chuvash - gives this study lasting methodological relevance in Turkic comparative linguistics. The series editor is Edkham Rakhimovich Tenishev (1921-2004), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and one of the foremost Turcologists of the Soviet era, whose participation lends considerable authority to the edition. 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The present study is devoted to a historical-typological analysis of the plots and imagery of the Even heroic epic, examined comparatively against the epic traditions of other peoples of the Russian Far North: Nanai, Negidal, Evenki, Chukchi, and Nenets, drawing on field recordings and published collections spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. The thematic analysis proceeds through a systematic typology of recurrent epic motifs: women living apart from men, shamanic narratives, female coming-of-age, the heroine's quest for a betrothed, revenge plots, wife-obtaining, and inter-clan conflict. A substantial appendix publishes two Even epic texts - \"Selnikean Selinitor\" and \"Son of the Kagan - Nyungua\" - with commentary, giving the volume a dual character as both analytical monograph and primary source edition of direct value to Tungusic philologists. 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Героический эпос «Джангар» : сравнительно-типологическое исследование памятника \/ Калмыцкий государственный университет.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Наука, Издательская фирма «Восточная литература», 1992. 319 с. Обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eМягкий переплёт. Тираж 650 экз.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: царапины по верхнему краю и залом у нижнего угла передней обложки; задняя обложка с незначительной потёртостью у нижнего правого угла; блок крепкий, полный.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKichikov, Anatoliy Sh. The Heroic Epic \"Dzhangar\": A Comparative Typological Study of the Monument \/ Kalmyk State University.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Nauka, Vostochnaya Literatura Publishing Firm, 1992. 319 pp. Standard format.\u003cbr\u003ePaper wrappers. Print run of 650 copies.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: scratches along the upper edge and a crease at the lower corner of the front wrapper; rear wrapper lightly rubbed at lower right corner; text block firm and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnatoliy Shalkhakovich Kichikov (1930-1992) was the foremost Soviet and Russian specialist in the Jangar heroic epic and the comparative study of Mongolian-group oral traditions, Professor and rector of Kalmyk State University, and compiler of the canonical two-volume scholarly edition of the Jangar texts published by Nauka\/GRWL in 1978. The present monograph is the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of the Jangar epic in world scholarship, presenting a systematic comparative typological analysis of all major regional versions of the monument. The Jangar (Dzhangar) is the central monument of Kalmyk (Western Oirat) oral literature, a cycle of heroic songs set in the mythical land of Bumba and transmitted by specialist bards (jangarchis) among the Kalmyks of the lower Volga steppe, the Oirats of Xinjiang, and the Mongols and Buryats. The monograph proceeds through four comparative sections: an analysis of the archaic tuul-uligar genre as the structural source of the Jangar's warrior-courtship plot; Buryat variants and the reactualization of archaic epic patterns; Mongolian versions; Xinjiang-Oirat versions; and a detailed treatment of the Kalmyk versions - their transformation of archaic material, and the artistic structure of the warrior-exploit songs - culminating in a synthesis that situates the Jangar within the broader context of Inner Asian heroic epic traditions. The volume includes a bibliography, appendix, and an English-language summary. Published by the prestigious Vostochnaya Literatura Publishing Firm of Nauka - successor to the Glavnaya Redaktsiya Vostochnoy Literatury (GRWL) and the principal Soviet Oriental studies imprint - with a print run of only 650 copies. With the first English translation of the Jangar published by the University of California Press in 2023, international scholarly interest in this epic has entered a new phase, and Kichikov's comparative study remains the foundational Russian-language reference for any researcher approaching this tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44346822918186,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3568.jpg?v=1778474141"},{"product_id":"zhornitskaya-m-folk-choreographic-art-of-the-indigenous-population-of-northeast-siberia-narodnoe-khoreograficheskoe-iskusstvo-korennogo-naseleniia-severo-vostoka-sibiri-1983-in-russian","title":"Zhornitskaya, M. Folk Choreographic Art of the Indigenous Population of Northeast Siberia (Narodnoe khoreograficheskoe iskusstvo korennogo naseleniia Severo-Vostoka Sibiri). 1983. 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Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences and one of the founding figures of Soviet ethnochoreology - the ethnographic study of traditional dance - alongside Tatyana Petrova-Bytova. This monograph was the first in ethnographic science to provide a systematic characterization of the folk choreographic art of the indigenous population of northeastern Siberia, examining the dance traditions of four peoples: the Asian Eskimos (Siberian Yupik), Chukchi, Koryaks, and Itelmen (Kamchadals). Zhornitskaya's fieldwork included the recording of ethnographic films on Chukchi and Eskimo dance in the 1970s that are preserved in the archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The monograph proceeds through five chapters, each devoted to one ethnic group's genre and thematic classification of dances, bodily technique and movement plastique, and ritual functions within lifecycle ceremonies, hunting observances, and communal celebrations; a concluding chapter addresses the contemporary stage of development of the choreographic art and the formation of its professional forms. The work treats dance as a historical-ethnographic source for reconstructing worldview, intercultural contacts, and pre-Christian religious practice, drawing on published ethnographic sources, archival records, and original field data. The volume is edited by Ilya Samuylovich Gurvich (1919-1992), Doctor of Historical Sciences and the principal Soviet ethnographer of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, whose fundamental studies on the Yakuts, Chukchi, and other northern peoples defined the field across three decades. The N.N. 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Танцы малых народов юга Дальнего Востока СССР как историко-этнографический источник \/ отв. ред. Ю.А. Сем ; АН СССР, Дальневосточный научный центр, Ин-т истории, археологии и этнографии народов Дальнего Востока.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Наука, 1979. 146 с. : ил. Обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eМягкий переплёт. Тираж 3400 экз.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: передняя обложка с царапинами по жёлтой поверхности, преимущественно у корешка и по нижнему правому краю; задняя обложка чистая; блок крепкий, полный.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKarabanova, Svetlana F. Dances of the Small Peoples of the Southern Soviet Far East as a Historical-Ethnographic Source \/ ed. by Yu.A. Sem ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Scientific Centre, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Nauka, 1979. 146 pp. : ill. Standard format.\u003cbr\u003ePaper wrappers. Print run of 3,400 copies.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: front wrapper with surface scuffing throughout the yellow field, concentrated at the spine edge and lower right; rear wrapper clean; text block firm and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSvetlana Fedorovna Karabanova was a researcher at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok, and one of the two principal Soviet ethnochoreologists to study the traditional dance cultures of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East. This monograph is a companion study to Mariya Zhornitskaya's 1983 volume on the choreographic art of northeastern Siberia; together they constitute the foundational pair of Soviet ethnographic monographs on indigenous Siberian and Far Eastern dance traditions. The present volume examines the dance cultures of four Amur-basin and coastal peoples: the Nanai (Goldi), Ulchi, Udege, and Nivkh. The study proceeds in three chapters: an opening theoretical chapter on the dance as a historical-ethnographic source, addressing the historiography of the problem, the functions of dance in daily life, the specifics of folk choreography, and classification problems; a second chapter on the traditional dance culture - the foundations of the dance art, the dances of the bear festival, the choreography of shamanic rituals, choreographic elements of other rites and celebrations, and the distinctive features of traditional choreography; and a third chapter on the contemporary choreographic creativity of these peoples and its development in the Soviet period. The study treats dance forms as a primary historical source for reconstructing pre-Christian worldview, shamanic practice, and the intercultural history of the lower Amur peoples. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44351275532330,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3591.jpg?v=1778670373"},{"product_id":"ossetian-nart-legends-iron-adaemy-narty-kaddzhytae-osetinskiye-nartskiye-skazaniya-translated-from-ossetian-by-yuri-libedinsky-illustrated-by-m-tuganov-binding-and-decorations-by-n-mukhin-1948-in-russian","title":"Ossetian Nart Legends (Iron adæmy narty kaddzhytæ \/ Osetinskiye nartskiye skazaniya) \/ translated from Ossetian by Yuri Libedinsky; illustrated by M. Tuganov; binding and decorations by N. Mukhin, 1948. In Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003eОсетинские нартские сказания = Ирон адæмы нарты кадджытæ \/ перевод с осетинского языка Ю. Либединского ; отв. ред. К. Д. Кулов ; вступ. ст. К. Д. Кулова ; редакционная комиссия Нартского комитета: Х. Ардасенов, С. Бритаев, проф. Л. П. Семенов ; лит. ред. П. Скосырев.\u003cbr\u003eДзауджикау : Государственное издательство Северо-Осетинской АССР, 1948. XXXI, 504 с., 12 л. ил. ; 26 × 19,3 см.\u003cbr\u003eИллюстрации народного художника Северо-Осетинской АССР М. Туганова ; орнаментальные заставки и концовки, переплёт, титульный лист, форзац худ. Н. Мухина. Твёрдый переплёт (чёрная ткань с тиснёным орнаментом: сцены нартского эпоса, кавказский орнамент). \u003cbr\u003eСуперобложка отсутствует.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: незначительный износ углов ; все 12 иллюстрационных листов на месте, полные ; утрата защитных калек перед иллюстрациями 2 и 11.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eOssetian Nart Legends [= Iron adæmy narty kaddzhytæ] \/ translated from Ossetian by Yuri Libedinsky ; responsible editor and author of introductory article K. D. Kulov ; editorial committee of the Nart Committee: Kh. Ardasenov, S. Britaev, Prof. L. P. Semenov ; literary editor Petr Skosyrev.\u003cbr\u003eDzhaudzhi kau [Vladikavkaz] : State Publishing House of the North Ossetian ASSR, 1948. XXXI, 504 pp., 12 color plates ; 26 × 19.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by M. Tuganov, People's Artist of the North Ossetian ASSR; ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, binding, title page, and endpapers by N. Mukhin. 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Dzhanayev, and others) was followed immediately by this 1948 Russian translation by Yuri Nikolaevich Libedinsky (1898-1959), Soviet writer and veteran literary figure associated with the Russian proletarian literature movement, whose extensive work in the Caucasus prepared him for this landmark undertaking.\u003cbr\u003eThe volume's outstanding distinction is its cycle of twelve full-color illustration plates by Maharbeg Sapharbegovich Tuganov (1881-1952), People's Artist of the North Ossetian ASSR and the most significant Ossetian painter of his generation. Tuganov devoted much of his career to documenting and visualizing Ossetian culture, mythology, and daily life; his illustrations of the Nart heroes - among them the warrior Soslan, the trickster Syrdon, and the goddess Shatan - are recognized as the canonical visual interpretation of the Ossetian epic. The introductory article \"Heroic Epic of the Ossetian People\" is by K. D. 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The edition was later reprinted in Moscow (2001), but the 1948 Dzhaudzhi kau first edition, distinguished by its original Mukhin binding and Tuganov plates on heavy coated paper, remains the edition of reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44367772057642,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3204.jpg?v=1778793775"},{"product_id":"shitova-s-traditional-settlements-and-dwellings-of-the-bashkirs-second-half-of-the-19th-first-quarter-of-the-20th-century-traditsionnye-poseleniya-i-zhilishcha-bashkir-1984-in-russian","title":"Shitova, S. Traditional Settlements and Dwellings of the Bashkirs: Second Half of the 19th — First Quarter of the 20th Century (Traditsionnye poseleniya i zhilishcha bashkir). 1984. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eШитова, Светлана Николаевна. Традиционные поселения и жилища башкир : вторая половина XIX — первая четверть XX в.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Издательство «Наука», 1984. 256 с., ил. ; обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eАкадемия наук СССР. Башкирский филиал. Институт истории, языка и литературы.\u003cbr\u003eТвердый переплет. Тираж 1 550 экз. \u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: лёгкое пожелтение бумаги, незначительные потёртости переплёта.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eShitova, Svetlana Nikolaevna. Traditsionnye poseleniya i zhilishcha bashkir: vtoraya polovina XIX — pervaya chetvert' XX veka [Traditional Settlements and Dwellings of the Bashkirs: Second Half of the 19th — First Quarter of the 20th Century].\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Nauka, 1984. 256 pp., illustrated ; standard format.\u003cbr\u003eAcademy of Sciences of the USSR, Bashkir Branch, Institute of History, Language and Literature.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Print run 1,550 copies. \u003cbr\u003eCondition good: light paper yellowing, minor cover wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis monograph by Svetlana Nikolaevna Shitova synthesizes twenty-five years of field expeditions among the Bashkir people of the southern Urals, documenting the traditional material culture of settlements and dwellings across the period of transition from semi-nomadic to sedentary life. The Bashkirs, a Turkic people of the Ural-Volga region who today form the Republic of Bashkortostan, are among the least-studied Turkic peoples in Western ethnographic literature, making this Soviet-era primary documentation particularly valuable. The book covers the full range of Bashkir settlement types — permanent village settlements (auls) with their street plans and spatial organization, khutors, seasonal hay-cutting and grazing encampments — followed by detailed treatment of rural permanent dwellings (log construction, clay, sod, and stone houses, semi-dugouts), temporary summer dwellings (yurts, conical and hemispherical shelters, log cabins), homestead layout, interior organization and furnishing, and architectural decoration including the carved wooden window frames, gable ornaments, and gates for which Bashkir vernacular architecture is known. Separate chapters address the territorial and ecological variation in dwelling types across the diverse geographical zones of Bashkiria. The study draws on materials from the ethnographic expeditions of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir Branch of the Academy of Sciences, as well as archival sources. 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