Image of the Bear in Minority Languages and Cultures

Tatiana B. Agranat is Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, and Head of Group for Finno-Ugric Languages at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor in the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics at Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia. Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva is Senior Researcher in the Department of Indo-European Languages, Section of Iranian Languages, at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

• Chapter 1 : The Linguacultural Image of the Bear : Introductory Notes.- Part One : Oral Narratives and Literature.- Chapter 2 : Bears in Yupik Folklore Tradition.- Chapter 3 : ‘Bearʼ in the Nenets Worldview.- Chapter 4 : “The Beast Who Slept Through Winter” ‒The Structure of a Song from the Bear Festival  of the Kazym Khanty.- Chapter 5 : The Image of the Bear in the Oral and Literary Traditions of the Iranian Linguacultural Area.- Chapter 6 : A Yazghulami Folktale about Animals: Areal Elements in Pamir Languages.- Chapter 7 : The Image of the Bear in the Traditional Culture of Italy.- Part Two : Life Stories from the Field : Encounters with Bears.- Chapter 8 : Upper Kuskokwim Bears,  Explicit and Implicit.- Chapter 9 : Qaanaamitun  (North-west Greenland): An Encounter with a Polar Bear.- Chapter 10 : The Role of the Bear in the Life and Culture of the Koryak.- Chapter 11 : The Role of the Bear in the Life and Culture of the Even in Kamchatka.- Chapter 12 : Bear in the Northern Selkup Tradition: From Bear Hunting to Bear Ceremony.- Chapter 13 : Bears in the Tuvan Language and Worldview.