The Turkic peoples ethnography in the works of Siberia researchers (to the results of 50 years of studies)

The aim of the scientific paper is to research the history of ethnographic studies of Turkic peoples that has been produced for recent 50 years by the scholars of Tomsk and Omsk scientific centres and also by scholars from other Siberian cities. The result of using of historiographical approach to the subject is a creation of the periodization of the studies history with special attention at the activity of the institutions, which carry out such researches, accordingly, the composition of the staff of scientists, on the disciplinary organization of the community of Siberian turkologists, and the results of their investigations in Siberian Turkic peoples ethnography. In the presented paper such written sources as Siberian ethnographers published papers, articles on the activity of the scientific establishments and articles by scholars, who study the Turkic peoples ethnography, and also scientific forums on Turkic topics, were used: Three periods were defined in the Tomsk and Omsk scholars ethnographic studies. The first period is the end of the 1960s to the first half of the 1970s. It is characterized by founding of the Tomsk ethnographic centre, where archaeologists and ethnographers were laboring, especially ones who studied Siberian Tatars and Chulym Turks. The second period is mid 1970s - 1980s. It is connected with a formation of the Omsk ethnographic centre and collaborative work of Omsk and Tomsk centres on the study of ethnography and anthropology of Altaians, Bachat Teleuts, Kazakhs, Tatars, Khakas, Chuvashes, Chulym Turks and Shorians. The third period has started in the 1990s and goes on nowadays. It may be characterized by expansion of researches in the field of ethnography and ethnoarchaeology of the Turkic peoples produced by scientists from Omsk and Tomsk with the involvement of specialists from other cities centres. In this period a great number of fundamental scientific series was published, like “Essays on cultural genesis of the Western Siberian peoples” (Ocherki kulturogenesa narodov Zapadnoy Sibiri)? “Ethnographic and archaeological complexes: the problems of culture and society” (Etnograficheskie kompleksi: problem kulturi I sotsiuma), “Integration of archaeological and ethnographic researches” (Integraciya arkheologicheskikh I etnographicheskikh issledoavniy).

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