Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia No. 3 / / ed. by Henry Michael, Maksim Levin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Levin, Maksim,; Michael, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)

This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and published. Levin has reviewed the old materials, gathered and analysed hitherto unpublished ones, and personally surveyed many of the peoples as a member of the Russian Northeastern Expedition. He makes use of all the data of physical anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics on the peoples he describes and has thus provided a definitive work on a nearly forgotten segment of mankind inhabiting an extensive territory. Volume III in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and under the general editorship of H.N. Michael, Temple University.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE PRINCIPAL STAGES OF RESEARCH IN THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTHERN ASIATIC PEOPLES -- II. PHYSICAL TYPES AND PROBLEMS OF ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLES IN THE LOWER AMUR REGION AND SAKHALIN -- III. PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE TUNGUS -- IV. ETHNOGENETIC PROBLEMS IN NORTHEASTERN ASIA IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA -- V. THE AINU QUESTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX. THE PHYSICAL TYPES OF THE KOREANS AND JAPANESE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY