Фольклор Долган

This is the nineteenth volume in the series of the Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia. The present volume is the first academic publication of the best samples of the folklore of the Dolgan, a small indigenous nation of the Far North (about 6 million). The Dolgan are one of the youngest nations in Siberia that was formed in the 18th-19th centuries on the territory of the modern Taimyr autonomous district out of several ethnic groups: the tribes of the Evens, Evenks, Enets, Nenets, Nganasans, northern Yakut-deer breeders, and the Russian early settlers. Only in 1973, has there been developed a writing system for Dolgan. Dolgan folklore has been collected in 1964-1990s ethnographic expeditions. The book also contains extensive ethnographic commentaries, dictionary, bibliography. Parallel text in Russian and Dolgan. A record contains some of the tales and songs from the book.