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Notes on the Samoyads of the Great Tundra

1895; Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Volume: 24; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2842187

2397-2564

F. G. Jackson, Arthur Montefiore,

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SINCE the days of Castren, ethnologists have generally adopted his classification of the Mongoloid races of Northern Asia; and until some traveller equally skilled to observe, and laborious to record, devotes hinmself to a study of those races as thorough as that made by Castren, it may be well to leave undisturbed his, main results and the nomenclature he has adopted.Following Castren then, we find that he has applied the term Ural-Altaic to the five great groups of Mongoloid man in the north of the Old World, and that these groups consist of the Tungus, the True Mongols, the Turks, the Finns, and the Samoyads.To the Tungus belong the Mantshu, the Shapodghir, the Lamuts, applied to those Tungus who dwell on the shores of Okotsk (from larnu = the Sea), and the Chukchis.Under the name of the Mongols we have the Tatas, or eastern Mongols, the Kalmuks and the Buriats, all of whom have professed Buddhism though still Shamanistic, and the Hazara.Under the Turks we find a great variety of races, of whom perlhaps the chief are the Osmanlis, Yakuts, Turkomans, Nogaians, Kirghis and Kazaks.The Finnic group may itself be subdivided into five branches, the Ugrian, Bulgarian, Permllian, the true Finn; and lastly, there is that fifth subdivision whiclh is called by the Russians, Samoyedi, and with which I have now to do.This content downloaded from 185.2.32.