A group of Samoyedes around a campfire, 1914
Samoyed (before 1906)
The term Samoyedic peoples (also Samodeic peoples) [1] is used to describe peoples speaking Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family. They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one. The name derives from the obsolete term Samoyed used in Russia for some indigenous peoples of Siberia.[2][3]
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Peoples
Samoyedic peoples include:
- Southern Samoyedic peoples
Location
The largest of these peoples are Nenets numbering 34,000. They live in three autonomous districts of Russia: Nenetsia, Yamalia (also known as Yamalo-Nenetsia), and Taymyria (formerly known as Dolgano-Nenetsia).
Cultural references
- In Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: "God-thirsty from the spiritual deserts of the workshop and the office, men came as to a temple [to a bar]...the mysterious divinity revealed itself to them...the shamans of the Samoyedes ate toadstools and were filled with the spirit of Num."
Gallery
 Nenets child |
 Nenets inside a tent |
References and notes
- ^ Some ethnologists use the term 'Samodeic peoples' instead 'Samoyedic', see Balzer, Marjorie (1999). The Tenacity of Ethnicity. Princeton University Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780691006734. http://books.google.com/books?id=jZedV50h5-kC&pg=PA241.
- ^ [T]he term Samoyedic is sometimes considered derogatory in Balzer, Marjorie (1999). The Tenacity of Ethnicity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691006734. http://books.google.com/books?id=jZedV50h5-kC&pg=PA241&dq=Samoyedic+derogatory.
- ^ "Samoyeds" had no derogatory meaning and represents a modification of the expression same-edne in Arctic Institute of North America (1961). Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources. University of Toronto Press. p. 219. http://books.google.com/books?spell=1&q=%22expression+same-edne.
- Nedeljković, Mile (2001) (in Serbian). Leksikon naroda sveta. Srpska književna zadruga. http://books.google.com/books?id=sJsuHQAACAAJ&dq.
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