Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals
The word iaman was used by 19-century Russian speakers in Sitka, Alaska, to refer to locally procured artiodactyls. The term originally meant "domesticated goat" in eastern Siberia and has usually been translated as "wild sheep" or "wild goat" in the American context. P...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64715 2023-05-15T14:19:13+02:00 Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals Blee, Catherine Holder 1989-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64715 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64715/48629 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64715 ARCTIC; Vol. 42 No. 3 (1989): September: 189–298; 227-231 1923-1245 0004-0843 Archaeology Bones Deer Ethnology Etymology History Russian language Translators Ungulates Alaska info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1989 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:53Z The word iaman was used by 19-century Russian speakers in Sitka, Alaska, to refer to locally procured artiodactyls. The term originally meant "domesticated goat" in eastern Siberia and has usually been translated as "wild sheep" or "wild goat" in the American context. Physical evidence in the form of deer bones recovered during archeological excavations dating to the Russian period in Sitka suggested a reexamination of the context in which the word iaman was used by the Russians. Russian, English, Latin and German historical and scientific literature describing the animal were examined for the context in which the word was used. These contexts and 19th-century Russian dictionary definitions equating wild goats with small deer substantiate the hypothesis that the word iaman referred to the Sitka black-tailed deer by Russian speakers living in Sitka.Key words: Alaskan mammals, Alaskan archeology, historical archeology, ethnohistory, Russian translation, southeast Alaska, faunal analysis, Russian America Mots clés: mammifères alaskiens, archéologie alaskienne, archéologie historique, ethnohistoire, traduction russe, Alaska du sud-est, analyse faunique, Amérique russe Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alaska Siberia University of Calgary Journal Hosting ARCTIC 42 3 |
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The word iaman was used by 19-century Russian speakers in Sitka, Alaska, to refer to locally procured artiodactyls. The term originally meant "domesticated goat" in eastern Siberia and has usually been translated as "wild sheep" or "wild goat" in the American context. Physical evidence in the form of deer bones recovered during archeological excavations dating to the Russian period in Sitka suggested a reexamination of the context in which the word iaman was used by the Russians. Russian, English, Latin and German historical and scientific literature describing the animal were examined for the context in which the word was used. These contexts and 19th-century Russian dictionary definitions equating wild goats with small deer substantiate the hypothesis that the word iaman referred to the Sitka black-tailed deer by Russian speakers living in Sitka.Key words: Alaskan mammals, Alaskan archeology, historical archeology, ethnohistory, Russian translation, southeast Alaska, faunal analysis, Russian America Mots clés: mammifères alaskiens, archéologie alaskienne, archéologie historique, ethnohistoire, traduction russe, Alaska du sud-est, analyse faunique, Amérique russe |
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Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals |
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Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals |
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Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals |
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Siberian Goats and North American Deer: A Contextual Approach to the Translation of Russian Common Names for Alaskan Mammals |
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