Karabanova, S. Dances of the Small Peoples of the Southern Soviet Far East as a Historical-Ethnographic Source (Tantsy malykh narodov iuga Dal'nego Vostoka SSSR kak istoriko-etnograficheskii istochnik). 1979. In Russian.

Карабанова, Светлана Федоровна. 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.
Москва : Наука, 1979. 146 с. : ил. Обычный формат.
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Karabanova, 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.
Moscow : Nauka, 1979. 146 pp. : ill. Standard format.
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Svetlana 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.