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Languages and Cultures of the Russian Far East

general editor: Erich Kasten

Even Language and Culture 


Эрих Кастен, Раиса Авак (сотавители)
Erich Kasten, Raisa Avak (eds.)

Одежда и прилкладное искусство эвенов Быстринсклого района
Clothing and Decorative Arts, Evens, Kamchatka, Bystrinski district


2018, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
277 pp., 15,5 x 22 cm
Euro 18, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-942883-33-7
PDF (3.4 MB)   

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 the manufacture of their clothing and of their decorative arts. 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.

DVD cassette (3 DVDs, 3:58 hrs.): Euro 28.