Languages and Cultures
of the Russian Far East
general editor: Erich Kasten
Even Language and Culture
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Эрих
Кастен, Раиса Авак (сотавители)
Erich Kasten, Raisa Avak (eds.)
Духовная культура эвенов Быстринского района
Even Tales, Songs and Worldviews, Bystrinski
district
2014,
Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
200 pp.,
15,5 x 22 cm
Euro 18,
paperback, ISBN: 978-3-942883-20-7
PDF
(2.5
MB)
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This book provides a comprehensive documentation of
the Bystrinski dialect of the Even language
and of important aspects of their unique cultural
heritage, such as their songs, tales and worldviews.
In combination with accompanying DVDs (with audio- and
videofiles of the recorded texts) this volume is aimed
at sustaining indigenous language and knowledge in
Kamchatka. To make the texts available to readers in
other parts of the world, especially to northern
communities outside Russia, in addition to Russian the
book contains English translations. Moreover, a
latinized transcription of the texts in posted here
for those with particular linguistic interests:
PDF
(2.5 MB).
DVD cassette (3 DVDs, 3:03 hrs.): Euro 28.
samples:
The
flight of the birds /
Little
Maia's tale / Tale of the fox