Zhornitskaya, M. Folk Choreographic Art of the Indigenous Population of Northeast Siberia (Narodnoe khoreograficheskoe iskusstvo korennogo naseleniia Severo-Vostoka Sibiri). 1983. In Russian.

Жорницкая, Мария Яковлевна. Народное хореографическое искусство коренного населения Северо-Востока Сибири / отв. ред. И.С. Гурвич ; АН СССР, Ин-т этнографии им. Н.Н. Миклухо-Маклая.
Москва : Наука, 1983. 152 с. : ил. Обычный формат.
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Zhornitskaya, Maria Ya. Folk Choreographic Art of the Indigenous Population of Northeast Siberia / ed. by I.S. Gurvich ; USSR Academy of Sciences, N.N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnography.
Moscow : Nauka, 1983. 152 pp. : ill. Standard format.
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Mariya Yakovlevna Zhornitskaya was a researcher at the N.N. 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. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnography was the leading Soviet institutional center for ethnographic research and a publisher of foundational series on the peoples of the world.