Black Food: Subsistence, Diet, and Exchange in Yessei Yakut Society

This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence fishing and hunting and th...

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Published in:Ethnohistory
Main Author: Argounova-Low, Tatiana
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Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2009
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Online Access:http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/56/3/479
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