The social organization of the Gilyak ... Edited with a foreword and afterword

by Bruce Grant by Lev Shternberg

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1999. First edition, 8vo, pp. lvi, 280; 2 maps, 3 tables, 32 illustrations some in color ; very good, sound, and clean in original pictorial wrappers. The Gilyak, or the Nivkh, are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland. Historically, they may have inhabited parts of Manchuria. Nivkh were traditionally fishermen,

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