Lebedeva, Zh. Epic Monuments of the Peoples of the Far North (Epicheskie pamiatniki narodov Krainego Severa). Novosibirsk, 1982. In Russian.

Лебедева, Жанна. Эпические памятники народов Крайнего Севера / отв. ред. д-р филол. наук Б.Н. Путилов ; АН СССР, Сибирское отделение, Якутский филиал, Ин-т яз., лит. и истории.
Новосибирск : Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1982. 112 с. Обычный формат.
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Lebedeva, Zhanna. Epic Monuments of the Peoples of the Far North / ed. by Doctor of Philological Sciences B.N. Putilov ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Yakut Division, Institute of Language, Literature and History.
Novosibirsk : Nauka, Siberian Branch, 1982. 112 pp. Standard format.
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Zhanna Lebedeva was a researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Yakut Division of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and one of the founding figures of the academic study of northern Siberian oral epic traditions. Her monographs on Even and Evenki poetics established the theoretical foundations of Soviet Far Northern folkloristics. 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. The editor is Boris Nikolaevich Putilov (1919-1997), Doctor of Philological Sciences and one of the foremost Soviet folklorists, whose theoretical works on heroic epic genre and Eurasian comparative folklore are foundational in the field. Published by the Nauka Siberian Branch in Novosibirsk, the principal academic press for the study of Siberia and the Soviet Far East.