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Evenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word ‘shaman’ has been borrowed from their language. Despite such recognition contemporary Evenki everyday life rarely appears as a subject for anthropological monographs, mainly because access to Evenki communities for the purpose of extended fieldwork has only recently become possible. In this original study of the Evenki the authors describe a variety of events and situations they observed during fieldwork, and through these experiences document different strategies that Evenki use to retain their ethos as hunter-gatherers even in circumstances when hunting is prohibited. The authors adopt the vocabulary of cybernetics, proposed by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, in order to underline the circuit logic of events that happen in Evenki land. Culture Contact in Evenki Land , therefore, will be welcomed by social anthropologists in general and specialists of Siberian and Inner Asian studies (Manchu-Tungus peoples) and hunter-gatherer peoples in particular, as well as those interested in the cybernetic approach.

Evenki (Asian people) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. --- Avanki (Asian people) --- Avankil (Asian people) --- Chapogir (Asian people) --- Ewenki (Asian people) --- Khamnigan (Asian people) --- O-wen-kʻo (Tribe) --- Owenke (Asian people) --- Owenko (Asian people) --- Tungus (Asian people) --- Tunguses --- Arctic peoples --- Ethnology --- Tungusic peoples --- Baikal, Lake, Region (Russia) --- Social life and customs.

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Ola Hanson (1864-1927) was a Swedish-American missionary from Minnesota, posted to northern Burma in 1890. He lived with the Kachin people and became fluent in their language, compiling a word-list and eventually producing a Kachin-English dictionary. Their own culture and complex belief system were orally transmitted: Hanson therefore devised an alphabetical transcription for his translation of the Bible into Kachin, and this writing system later became widespread in Burma. First published in 1913, this book was written after Hanson had lived with the Kachins for over twenty years, and offers a unique insight into their culture at this time. It outlines their origins, dialects, law and weapons, as well as the details of Kachin religious beliefs and ceremonies for births, marriage and death. This is both an ethnography of the Kachin and an example of the perspective of an early 20th-century missionary.

Kachin (Asian people) --- Burma --- Social life and customs. --- Description and travel. --- Chingpa (Asian people) --- Chingpaw (Asian people) --- Kachin tribes --- Singphos (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Description and travel

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William Marsden (1754-1836) spent his youth working for the East India Company in Sumatra, arriving at sixteen and returning to seek new opportunities in England at twenty-five. Through his acquaintance with Sir Joseph Banks, and his interest in oriental studies, which later led to his admittance to the Royal Society, Marsden was inspired to write an account of the island. His history was first published in 1783. Throughout his subsequent life he combined research and writing, especially on oriental languages and numismatics, and he was also First Secretary to the Admiralty at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar. Displaying a profound understanding of the local flora, fauna, history and people, Marsden provides an important account of a little-known part of Indonesia. Illustrated with botanical drawings, maps and local scenes, the third edition of 1811 is reissued here.

Malays (Asian people) --- History. --- Sumatra (Indonesia) --- Social life and customs. --- Malay race --- Melayu (Asian people) --- Orang Melayu (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Andalas (Indonesia) --- Andalus (Indonesia) --- Pulau Sumatera (Indonesia) --- Sumatera (Indonesia) --- Greater Sunda Islands

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Set in Singapore in the 1910s, A Nyonya Mosaic is the story of a young girl growing up in a slowly changing world. William Gwee Thian Hock relates the childhood impressions of his Nyonya mother through her own eyes - the scenes of happiness, birthdays and weddings; and the inevitable disease and death; the childish passions and fears woven through the mosaic of a strict and sometimes unrelenting culture; as intricate and as colourful in its every detail. Much in the foreground is the family, her matriarchal grandmother, her dogmatic father and her siblings, all with their own stories, but alwa

Peranakan (Asian people) --- Social life and customs. --- Seow, Leong Neo, --- Gwee, Thian Hock --- Childhood and youth. --- Family.

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This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities� attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state�s quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices�chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry�that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.

Bouyei (Chinese people) --- History --- Guizhou Sheng (China) --- China --- Ethnic relations --- Bo-i (Chinese people) --- Bố Y (Chinese people) --- Buman (Chinese people) --- Bui (Chinese people) --- Buyayi (Chinese people) --- Buyei (Chinese people) --- Buyi (Chinese people) --- Buyui (Chinese people) --- Buzhong (Chinese people) --- Chongjia (Chinese people) --- Chʻung chia (Chinese people) --- Chungchia (Chinese people) --- Dioi (Chinese people) --- Kuei (Chinese people) --- Kui (Chinese people) --- Po-ai (Chinese people) --- Pu-i (Chinese people) --- Pu-i (Tribe) --- Pu-ji (Chinese people) --- Pu-jui (Chinese people) --- Pu Y (Chinese people) --- Pu-yi (Chinese people) --- Pui (Chinese people) --- Pujai (Chinese people) --- Puyi (Chinese people) --- Puyoi (Chinese people) --- Quinjiang (Chinese people) --- Shuihu (Chinese people) --- Zhongjia (Chinese people) --- Ethnology --- Tai (Southeast Asian people) --- Kweichau (China) --- Kwei-chow (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng (China) --- Kweichow (China : Province) --- Kishū-shō (China) --- Kuei-chou (China : Province) --- Kweichow Province (China) --- Kweichow, China (Province) --- Gui Zhou (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Guizhousheng (China) --- 贵州省 (China) --- Chủng chá (Chinese people) --- Pố Dí (Chinese people) --- Pủ Dí (Chinese people) --- Trọng gia (Chinese people) --- Trung gia (Chinese people) --- Tu Dí (Chinese people) --- Tu Dìu (Chinese people) --- Tu Dín (Chinese people) --- Tu Dính (Chinese people) --- S04/0680 --- S04/0454 --- S11/1230 --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- China: History--Gazetteers: Guizhou --- China: Social sciences--Others --- Asian history