Konakov, N. D., Kotov, O. V. Ethnoareal Groups of the Komi: Formation and Contemporary Ethnocultural State (Etnoareal'nye gruppy komi). 1991. In Russian.

Конаков, Николай Дмитриевич; Котов, Олег Васильевич. Этноареальные группы коми : формирование и современное этнокультурное состояние / Академия наук СССР, Уральское отделение, Коми научный центр, Институт языка, литературы и истории.
Москва : Наука, 1991. 232 с. Формат немного увеличенный.
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Konakov, Nikolai Dmitrievich, and Kotov, Oleg Vasilyevich. Ethnoareal Groups of the Komi: Formation and Contemporary Ethnocultural State / USSR Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch, Komi Scientific Center, Institute of Language, Literature and History.
Moscow : Nauka, 1991. 232 pp. Slightly enlarged format.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 400 copies.
Condition good: front wrapper with soiling at upper portion; rear wrapper with a small removed-label mark at upper left and a brownish spot along the spine edge; leaves age-yellowed; text block firm and complete.

A specialist monograph in Soviet ethnography issued by the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, devoted to the ethnoareal groups of the Komi - the Finno-Ugric indigenous people of what is now the Komi Republic in northeastern European Russia. The concept of "ethnoareal groups" designates regional subgroups of a single ethnic community defined by a combination of territorial, dialectal, and cultural characteristics, and the Komi people, dispersed across a vast zone from the Pechora basin to the northern Urals, offer an exceptionally varied case for this kind of internal ethno-geographic differentiation. 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.