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This new title notice describes a book about the Siberian Khanty People:
"Essays on Khanty Traditional Land Use and History"
It may be ordered for US $12.00. Ordering information is at the bottom

of this message.

Ocherki Istorii Traditsionnogo Zemlepol'zolvaniya Khantov (Materialy k
Atlasu)/ Essays on Khanty Traditional Land Use and History Yekaterinburg:
Tezis, 1999. Pp. 214.

A new, Russian-language book of scholarly essays, based on archival research
as well as contemporary linguistic, archeological and ethnographic
fieldwork, is now available. This work, a collaboration of colleagues at
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, USA), Urals State University and
the Urals Branch, Institute of History and Archaeology, Russian Academy of
Science (both Yekaterinburg, Russia), was made possible by a grant from The
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Supply is very limited.

Contents

(1) Zhivy yeshyo na Zemle/ Still Living on the Land (Introduction)
(Andrew Wiget), pp.5-8

(2) Drevnyaya Istoriya Surgutskogo Priob'ya/ Ancient History of Surgutskiy
PriOb'ya (Yuri Chemyakin, Konstantin Karacharov), pp. 9-66. 20
figures, 9 maps

(3) Xanty v sostave Russkogo Gosudarstva/ Khanty in Relation to the Russian
State, 17th-20th C. (Elena Glavatskaya). Pp. 67-112. 7 maps.

(4) Toponimicheskaya Kartina Territorii Prozhivaniya Khanty (Osobennosti
Struktury I Semantiki Khantyiskikh Toponimov)/Toponymic Picture of
Territory of Khanty Traditional Living (Peculiarities of Structure and
Semantics of Khanty Toponyms) (Tat'yana Dmitrieva). Pp113-138. 1 map.

(5) Svyashennye Mesta Khantov Srednei I Nizhnei Obi/Sacred Places of the
Khanty of the Middle and Lower Ob' (Olga Balalaeva). Pp.139-56. 3
maps.

(6) Ekonomika I Traditsionnoye Zemlepol'zovaniye Vostochnykh
Khantov/Economy and Traditional land Use of the Eastern Khanty
(Andrew Wiget). Pp. 157-200. 8 figures.

(7) Chornyi Sneg: Neft' I Vostochnyye Khanty/ Black Snow: Oil and the
Eastern Khanty (Andrew Wiget). Pp. 201-214. 1 figure.

Cost: $12.00 USD + Postage $1.50 (North America) or $3.50 elsewhere.
Payable by Check or Money Order only to:

Dr. Andrew Wiget
The New Mexico Heritage Center
Box 3E/ New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
awiget [at] nmsu.edu