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Ginseng in the traditional culture of Tuvans in China and Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Ginseng is one of the most respected herbs in Tuvan culture. In a folk medicine it was widely used as a wonder-working remedy for many diseases. The article examines the folk names of ginseng, which are different for Chinese Tuvans and Tuvans living in ...
Zhanna M. Yusha
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Relics of the Traditions of the Scythian Time in Burial Rites of the Tuvans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article aims to determine the origin of those of the Tuvan burial rites which are similar to ancient Scythian traditions. For a comparative analysis, the author of this article used the ethnographic and archaeological materials from territories both
Бубенок, Олег
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Examining Values, Virtues, and Tradition in the Republic of Tuva with Free-List and Demographic Data

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2020
This article illustrates how using qualitative and quantitative social scientific methods together can help us examine sociocultural phenomena in precise, informative, and potentially useful ways.
Бенджамин Грант Пуржицки   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
wiley   +1 more source

The national character of Tuvans: history and modernity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of: Lamazhaa Ch. K. National character of Tuvans. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia. 240 p. ISBN 978-5-4469-1406-7 The review examines the main research positions of the author and the methodological foundations of her study.
Anna V. Kostina
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

open access: yesComplexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expedition to the Tuvans in China, Russia, and Mongolia in 2012 : A Preliminary Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article is a preliminary report on the international expedition to the Tuvans in China, Russia, and Mongolia that was conducted in the summer of 2012 as a Cultural Resource Project of the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).
Mongush, Marina V.   +1 more
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Geocultural images of the Tuvan Buddhist world: historical context and modernity

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2019
The article analyzes geocultural images of Buddhist world of the Tuvans. These images are viewed as concepts, which were formed in the Tuvan culture to describe the areas where Buddhism has spread.
Chimiza K. Lamazhaa
doaj   +1 more source

Total Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Profiles Among Reindeer Herders and Office Workers of Northern Finland

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the Arctic, climate change increases extreme weather events and unpredictability, affects food chains, increases transportational needs, and decreases physical activity (PA) and estimated total energy expenditure (eTEE). Thus, understanding how climate change affects inhabitants of different environments is increasingly important.
Ville Stenbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
wiley   +1 more source

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