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K. I. Kostenkov about the Traditional Economic Structure in Kalmyk Steppe

https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-15-81-107

Abstract

The work deals with studies of Russia’s peripheral territories that advanced within social discourse during the post-reform era. Those were a reaction of Russian society to the rapid disappearance of so called ‘internal peripheries’ — regions of the Russian Orient that had retained a certain level of autonomy and characteristic economic lifestyles since their annexation by the Russian state. The paper contains an excerpt from Kalmyk Steppe of Astrakhan Governorate: a Statistical and Economic Description (St. Petersburg, 1868) by K. I. Kostenkov that has become a classic of Kalmyk studies. The published fragment of Chapter Four characterizes livestock breeding practices — a major economic sector of traditional Kalmyk society. The fragment is actually a key one since it provides an overview of approaches and methods that took shape in national science — including history, ethnology, and sociology that touched upon domestic agriculture as a basis of traditional cultures in general — during the period under consideration. 

About the Authors

A. Ryazhev
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin Str., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation

Ph. D. in History (Cand. of Historical Sc.), Leading Research Associate, Department of History, Ethnology and Archaeology



A. Doleeva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin Str., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation

Junior Research Associate



D. Topalova
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin Str., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation

Research Associate



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Ryazhev A., Doleeva A., Topalova D. K. I. Kostenkov about the Traditional Economic Structure in Kalmyk Steppe. Mongolian Studies. 2018;10(4):81-107. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-15-81-107

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