Warfare of the Chukchi
Subtitle: (mid-17th to early 20th century)
By: Alexander K. Nefëdkin ; translated by Richard L. Bland
Publisher: US Department of Interior, National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Chukchi; Warfare; Material culture; Social life and customs; Eskimos
Work titles: Voennoe delo chukcheĭ
Notes: "© the Russian text of Voennoe delo chukchei (seredina XVII-nachalo XX v.) by Alexander K. Nefëdkin (St. Petersburg: Petersburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 2003) was translated into English by Richard L. Bland of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, and published by the US Department of Interior, National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program, Anchorage, Alaska, by one-time permission from A. K. Nefëdkin, August 2014."--Page iii.

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Translation from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-297).
Table of contents: title: Chronology of events; title: Natural conditions, social life, and military organization; title: Armament, dress, transportation; title: Conducting warfare; title: Siege and defense; title: War on the sea; title: The cult aspects of war; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix I. Some aspects of warfare of the Cossacks of Eastern Siberia in the mid-17th; title: first half of the 18th centuries; title: Appendix II. Folklore material: Chukchi heroic legends; Koryak stories; Eskimo heroic stories.