Vladimir Arsenyev

Explorer and Researcher of the Tungus-Manchu Peoples and Their Languages

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Albina Girfanova St. Petersburg State University albigirf@gmail.com

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https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2018.170103
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ethnography; linguistics; Tungus-Manchu languages; Tungus-Manchu studies
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Abstract

This article deals with the eminent Russian explorer, ethnographer, naturalist, and geographer Vladimir Arsenyev. He devoted thirty years to researching the Russian Far East, in particular the Ussuri taiga, and to documenting the lives and customs of the region’s inhabitants and their surroundings. The article focuses on the linguistic activities of Arsenyev, who simultaneously studied the local Tungus-Manchu (Udeghe and Oroch) languages and left behind unique materials. Its goal is to move beyond a consideration of Arsenyev’s novel Dersu Uzala to consider Arsenyev’s writing in his expedition journals, and demonstrate the differences between the actual Dersu Uzala and the literary character.

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Albina Girfanova is an associate professor of the Department of General Linguistics of St. Petersburg State University. E-mail: albigirf@gmail.com

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Keywords:
ethnography; linguistics; Tungus-Manchu languages; Tungus-Manchu studies
Print Publication Date:
01 Mar 2018
Online Publication Date:
01 Mar 2018
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© Berghahn Books 2018

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