Clothing and Decorative Arts, Evens, Kamchatka, Bystrinski district
Erich Kasten und Raisa Avak (Hg.)
Erich Kasten und Raisa Avak (Hg.). Одежда и прикладное искусство эвенов Быстринского района / Clothing and Decorative Arts, Evens, Kamchatka, Bystrinski district.
2018, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
277 pp., 15,5 x 22 cm
Euro 18, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-942883-33-7
This book provides a comprehensive documentation of the Bystrinski dialect of the Even language and of important aspects of their unique cultural heritage, such as the manufacture of their clothing and of their decorative arts. In combination with accompanying DVDs (with audio- and videofiles of the recorded texts) this volume is aimed at sustaining indigenous language and knowledge in Kamchatka. To make the texts available to readers in other parts of the world, especially to northern communities outside Russia, in addition to Russian the book contains English translations.
DVD cassette (3:58 hrs.): Euro 28
Even / Russian / English