Y Berezkin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5504 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Y Berezkin |
| NOMBRES | Y |
| APELLIDO | Berezkin |
| FIRMA | BEREZKIN Y |
| AFILIACIONES | Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6001-7339 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Spread of Motifs Characteristic of Oral Narratives Featuring Zoomorphic Characters in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Circum-Pacific World
The Northwest Coast of North America as the Main Route from Beringia to the New World
В статье анализируются данные о распределении характерных для Нового Света фольклорно-мифологических мотивов. Их ареалы соответствуют предположению о движении ранних мигрантов вдоль тихоокеанского побережья Северной Америки с выходом в историко-культурную область Плато и последующим распространением на юг, восток и юго-восток. Перенос элементов культуры по коридору Маккензи не подтверждается ни данными о распределении эпизодов и образов фольклора…
The Northwest Coast of North America as the Main Route from Beringia to the New World
Data on the distribution of folklore and mythological motifs in the New World are analyzed. Their areas agree with the idea that early migrants moved along the Pacific coast of North America. The Columbian Plateau with the adjacent part of the coast could have been a hub whence people dispersed to the south, southeast, and east. The transfer of cultural elements along the Mackenzie Corridor is supported neither by the distribution of mythological…
Forum 66
Every era has its own “mainstream scholarly style” — the generally accepted way of writing academic texts in а given era and place. To today’s tastes, many academic texts written a century and more ago seem verbose and impersonal, weighed down with dispensable reflections and ruminations. Soviet academic style was radically different from English-language publications of the time, but these days many Russian academic texts read like translations …
The Vengeful Heroes, Forty Years Later
The motive of heroes’ revenge for the death of one of their parents is one of the most popular in the New World. Narratives based on it are absent only in the Arctic (among most of the Eskimos) and in the Subarctic (among the Athapaskans). In the rest of North and South America, the variants with revenge for the death of the father and the death of the mother are approximately equally widespread. In most of narratives recorded in the New World, t…
Forum 64
This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…
The Magic Wife
Eurasian back-migration
The author examines the world distribution of mythological motifs peculiar for Northeast Africa but absent in other parts of this continent. The corresponding narratives describe the events of the time of creation, objects and beings localized at the ultimate limits of the human world as well as episodes of the journeys of heroes to these limits. The motifs in question are absent in Central Asia and Siberia but found across Western, South and Sou…
Paleoindian, East Asian and Siberian components of the Eskimo oral traditions
The possibility to use analytical units extracted from traditional narratives for the study of prehistoric migrations and contacts follows from the works of Franz Boas published between 1895 and 1915. In the 1920s, the priorities of American anthropology changed, so the folklore studies missed the opportunity to become a tool of historic research. Here we try to advance a project abandoned a hundred years ago. Our database consists of more than 8…
The Clashing Rocks
Vladimir Propp interpreted the fairytale with all its episodes and images as a narrative correspondence to the initiation rites described in Africa, Australia, Melanesia and South America. For him, the motif of clashing rocks was the equivalent of monstrous jaws swallowing adolescent boys. For the authors of the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, this motif is a borderline inside the universal opposition between life and death, ours and others. Here we…
Forum 60
AI allows work with data to extend well beyond simple keyword searches or formulaic calculations. It is applied to help specialists in the history of art and in discourse analysis as well as in linguistics and physical anthropology who analyse big corpora and construct models. Participants in the "Forum", a written round table, are representatives of the social sciences and humanities. They describe their contact with such applications in their p…
The Doe and the She-bear
Folk narratives about two women who practice gathering, one of whom treacherously murders the other, and about the victim’s children who kill the murderer’s children and run away, are recorded in the Pacific region of the United States, in Chaco, in Eastern Indonesia, in Tibet, in East Africa (only one text) and (without the motif of killing children) in Western Siberia. The characters are mostly animal characters who behave like humans. There is…
Little Statisticians in the Forest of Tales
A new trend has been swelling in the ocean of comparative mythology. Different research has been carried out using statistics to reconstruct the (pre)history of myths and mythological motifs (replicable episodes of traditional narratives) and to understand how they have evolved. The results obtained by using these different approaches converge and make it possible to intertwine numerous strands of evidence. We will try to summarize it in this pap…
Two Brothers, Four Brothers
А н т р о п о л о г и ч е с к и й ф о р у м , 2 0 2 3 , No 5 7 ДВОЕ БРАТЬЕВ, ЧЕТВЕРО БРАТЬЕВ: ВАРИАНТЫ ОТНОШЕНИЙ МЕЖДУ ПРОТАГОНИСТАМИ КАК МИФОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ МОТИВЫ Юрий Евгеньевич БерезкинМузей антропологии и этнографии (Кунсткамера) РАН 3 Университетская наб., Санкт
Sumerian poem about Lugalbanda and parallels for one of its episodes
This article begins with the paraphrase of the Sumerian poems "Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave" and "Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird". The retelling is made by Rim M. Nurullin who consulted the recent studies related to these texts. A parallel between "Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave" and the Rigveda is specifically discussed. Further, a classification of episodes found in the narratives recorded in Eurasia and America ca. A.D. 1850-1950 that contai…
The Cultural Continuum of the Eurasian Boreal Zone and the Eastern Siberian Wedge (Based on Comparative Mythology and Paleogenetics)
За последние десять лет в Электронный каталог фольклора и мифологии мира были введены резюме многих тысяч текстов, записанных в Европе и Азии. Их обработка показывает наличие систематических параллелей между традициями Западной Евразии и Америки, в частности индейцев Равнин. Особенно заметны подобные мотивы в древнегреческой мифологии (падение Фаэтона, Пасифая и бык, борьба карликов с перелетными птицами и др.). О подобных параллелях было известн…
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Volga-Ural and West Siberian Components in the Folklore of the Sámi and the Baltic Finns
Global data processing has allowed us to reveal a set of specific folklore parallels between the Finnic and Sámi traditions on one hand and Siberian peoples on the other. We analyse the data for ten of these motifs, which consist of cosmological and aetiological concepts as well as trickster and adventure episodes. In Europe, these motifs are extremely rare, and in most cases occur only in the Finnic and Sámi traditions. In Siberia, the motifs ar…
The Cultural Continuum of the Eurasian Boreal Zone and the Eastern Siberian Wedge (Based on Comparative Mythology and Paleogenetics)
Over the recent decade, abstracts of many thousands of folktales recorded in Europe and Asia have been added to our Electronic Catalogue of World Mythology and Folklore. Their analysis reveals systematic parallels between the traditions of Western Eurasia and America, those of the Plains Indians in particular. Such motifs are especially apparent in Ancient Greek mythology (Phaethon’s fall, Pasiphae and the bull, cranes attacking dwarfs, etc.). Al…
Some Early Motifs in European Folklore
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Big history and big data in mythology and folklore
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Alexander Grigoryevich Kozintsev
Laudation to Alexander Grigoryevich Kozintsev on the occasion of his 75th birthday
African Heritage in Mythology
Our analytical catalogue contains information on many thousands of folklore and mythological texts. The systemic approach to this material argues in favor of an African origin of episodes and images that were recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, the Indo-Pacific border of Asia and in America but are absent in continental Eurasia. Such a pattern corresponds to genetic and archaeological data concerning the early spread of the modern human from Africa i…
Areal Connections of Ancient Japanese Mythology
Athabaskan–Siberian Folklore Links
The North American Na-Dene languages, most of them belonging to the Athabaskan branch, are possibly related to the Yeniseian languages of Siberia. A series of episodes of traditional narratives link the Na-Dene with the Altai-Sayan region. The creators of the Sumnagin culture of eastern and north-eastern Siberia, who possibly reached Alaska in the Early Holocene, seem the most plausible candidates for the proto-Na-Dene speakers, although interpre…
Earth-diver” and “emergence from under the earth
An Identification of Anthropomorphic Mythological Personages in Moche Representations
View correction statement:CORRECTIONS TO ÑAWPA PACHA 18
Athabaskan–Siberian Folklore Links
The North American Na-Dene languages, most of them belonging to the Athabaskan branch, are possibly related to the Yeniseian languages of Siberia. A series of episodes of traditional narratives link the Na-Dene with the Altai-Sayan region. The creators of the Sumnagin culture of eastern and north-eastern Siberia, who possibly reached Alaska in the Early Holocene, seem the most plausible candidates for the proto-Na-Dene speakers, although interpre…
Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia
In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert
Manifestation of Worldviews in Traditional Narratives
Data on the areal distribution of motifs extracted from ca 25,000 traditional narratives were computed with the purpose of revealing a chronology of the emergence of particular mythological themes. The statistical processing of this material allowed selection of sets of motifs that probably correspond to the routes of major prehistoric migrations known thanks to archaeology and population genetics. Our conclusions are largely based on the compari…
Siberian Folklore and the Na-Dené Origins1
Six folklore motifs shared by the native Na-Dené speakers in North America and in Southern Siberia are revealed. In such combination, these motifs are known nowhere else. The spread of the Na-Dené languages to North America was related to the migration of the bearers of the Dyuktai culture. The lack of parallels for the Na-Dené folklore in Yakutia, Kolyma, Chukotka, and Kamchatka is understandable: the Dyuktai people had gone to Alaska and their …
Tricksters Trot to America
The folklore Trickster is usually considered a universally known combination of features intrinsic to human nature.However, there are strong anomalies in the areal distribution of such a figure.Sub-Saharan Africa, North America (except for the Arctic), Northeast Asia and South American Chaco not only are the preferred zones of tricksters' activity but also share some peculiar trickster motifs unknown in most of the other regions.The range of anim…
The Cultural Continuum of the Eurasian Boreal Zone and the Eastern Siberian Wedge (Based on Comparative Mythology and Paleogenetics)
Over the recent decade, abstracts of many thousands of folktales recorded in Europe and Asia have been added to our Electronic Catalogue of World Mythology and Folklore. Their analysis reveals systematic parallels between the traditions of Western Eurasia and America, those of the Plains Indians in particular. Such motifs are especially apparent in Ancient Greek mythology (Phaethon’s fall, Pasiphae and the bull, cranes attacking dwarfs, etc.). Al…
Buried in a Head
There is a strange story among the fables ascribed to Aesop. It was preserved by Aristophanes and tells about the lark, who was born before the creation of the earth and had to bury her dead father in her own head. This article investigates Indian, Arabic, and North and West African parallels to this story. The analysed texts share several specific details, and the motif ‘buried in a head’ lying at the base of them is found worldwide only in a fe…
Folklore Parallels Between Siberia And South Asia And The Mythology Of The Eurasian Steppes
According to the myth about the origin of man recorded among the people of Eastern Europe and Siberia, the creator set a dog to guard the half-made human figures, but the antagonist bribed the guard and spoiled the creation, making humans vulnerable to disease. The creator told the dog to become the servant of man. Texts recorded in India (mostly among the Munda-speaking groups), the Dards of the Hindu Kush and the Abkhasians, though partly simil…
Folklore-mythological parallels among peoples of Western Siberia, Northeastern Asia, and the Lower Amur — Primorye region
African Heritage in Mythology
Our analytical catalogue contains information on many thousands of folklore and mythological texts. The systemic approach to this material argues in favor of an African origin of episodes and images that were recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, the Indo-Pacific border of Asia and in America but are absent in continental Eurasia. Such a pattern corresponds to genetic and archaeological data concerning the early spread of the modern human from Africa i…
The Pleiades as Openings, The Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and The Girl On the Moon
The Baltic-Finnish and the Baltic (Latvian and Lithuanian) cosmonyms mostly coincide while the Baltic and Slavic cosmonymic patterns are different. The Pleiades in the Eastern Baltic are 'a sieve', the Milky Way is 'the path of migratory birds' and a girl holding water pails is seen on the Moon. Across most of Central, Western and Southern Europe the Pleiades are 'a hen with its chicken', the Milky Way and the lunar spots have other (and differen…
The Pleiades as Openings, the Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and the Girl in the Moon
The Baltic-Finnish and the Baltic cosmonyms mostly coincide, while the Baltic and Slavic ones are different. Baltic-Finnish variants find parallels in texts of the peoples of the Middle Volga. The interpretation of the spots in the Moon as a girl or young woman with water-pails is widespread across all of Northern Eurasia, being also typical of the North American Northwest Coast, the Algonquians to the north of the Great Lakes, and of the Maori. …
Cosmic Hunt
The mythological motif of the Cosmic Hunt is peculiar to Northern and Central Eurasia and for the Americas but seems to be absent in other parts of the globe. Two distinct Eurasian versions demonstrate North-American parallels at the level of minor details which could be explained only by particular historical links between corresponding traditions. The first version (three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper are hunters and the dipper itself i…
An Identification of Anthropomorphic Mythological Personages in Moche Representations
View correction statement:CORRECTIONS TO ÑAWPA PACHA 18
On Inca Finance
Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia
In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert
Archaeology and education in Postsoviet Russia
In the mid 1980s, anthropologists such as Marcus & Fischer (1986) called for a 'repatriation' of anthropology, bringing the tools of the discipline to bear on the 'home' situations of Euro-America rather than focusing on 'alien, exotic' traditions
Cosmic Hunt
The mythological motif of the Cosmic Hunt is peculiar to Northern and Central Eurasia and for the Americas but seems to be absent in other parts of the globe. Two distinct Eurasian versions demonstrate North-American parallels at the level of minor details which could be explained only by particular historical links between corresponding traditions. The first version (three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper are hunters and the dipper itself i…
Return of the White Raven
This note is dedicated to the study of the motif of raven as a scavenging post-Flood scout and its "White Raven" version. In her monograph The Raven and the Carcass, Anna Birgitta Rooth proposed that this motif was brought to all parts of the New World from Western Europe by Catholic missionaries. The article suggests that both "The Raven and the Carcass" motif and its "White Raven" version existed in the New World prior to the European colonizat…
Folklore-mythological parallels among peoples of Western Siberia, Northeastern Asia, and the Lower Amur — Primorye region
Dwarfs and Cranes. Baltic-Finnish Mythologies in Eurasian and American Perspective (70 years after Yrjö Toivonen)
Tales about the struggle between dwarfs and birds are widespread across Eurasia and the Americas. About half of them were known to Toivonen (1937), but a large part of the American and some of the Asian materials remained beyond the scope of his research. The southernmost Eurasian version is from Nagaland. The closest parallels are between Ancient Greek, Fennoscandian, Chinese, Lower Amur and North-American tales. In eastern South America (Upper …
Earth-diver” and “emergence from under the earth
The Pleiades as Openings, the Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and the Girl in the Moon
The Baltic-Finnish and the Baltic cosmonyms mostly coincide, while the Baltic and Slavic ones are different. Baltic-Finnish variants find parallels in texts of the peoples of the Middle Volga. The interpretation of the spots in the Moon as a girl or young woman with water-pails is widespread across all of Northern Eurasia, being also typical of the North American Northwest Coast, the Algonquians to the north of the Great Lakes, and of the Maori. …
The Pleiades as Openings, The Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and The Girl On the Moon
The Baltic-Finnish and the Baltic (Latvian and Lithuanian) cosmonyms mostly coincide while the Baltic and Slavic cosmonymic patterns are different. The Pleiades in the Eastern Baltic are 'a sieve', the Milky Way is 'the path of migratory birds' and a girl holding water pails is seen on the Moon. Across most of Central, Western and Southern Europe the Pleiades are 'a hen with its chicken', the Milky Way and the lunar spots have other (and differen…
Tricksters Trot to America
The folklore Trickster is usually considered a universally known combination of features intrinsic to human nature.However, there are strong anomalies in the areal distribution of such a figure.Sub-Saharan Africa, North America (except for the Arctic), Northeast Asia and South American Chaco not only are the preferred zones of tricksters' activity but also share some peculiar trickster motifs unknown in most of the other regions.The range of anim…
Folklore Parallels Between Siberia And South Asia And The Mythology Of The Eurasian Steppes
According to the myth about the origin of man recorded among the people of Eastern Europe and Siberia, the creator set a dog to guard the half-made human figures, but the antagonist bribed the guard and spoiled the creation, making humans vulnerable to disease. The creator told the dog to become the servant of man. Texts recorded in India (mostly among the Munda-speaking groups), the Dards of the Hindu Kush and the Abkhasians, though partly simil…
The Dog, the Horse and the Creation of Man
A story that described the creation of man became known to at least some inhabitants of the Eurasian Steppe zone not later than the early II millennia B.C. Not a fragment of it survived across most of this area, and our reconstruction is based on the evidence from the areas to the north and to the south of the Steppe Belt. The texts in question share many specific details and the probability of their independent emergence looks negligible. At the…
Spread of folklore motifs as a proxy for information exchange
The aim of this paper is to reveal patterns of areal spread of folklore motifs in Eurasia and to understand their rationale. The distribution of 615 motifs related to adventures and tricks according to 339 Old World traditions was statistically processed using factor analysis. Tendencies in the areal spread of motifs are interpreted as proxies for the intensity of information exchange between people. Two regularities in distribution of motifs des…
Siberian Folklore and the Na-Dené Origins1
Six folklore motifs shared by the native Na-Dené speakers in North America and in Southern Siberia are revealed. In such combination, these motifs are known nowhere else. The spread of the Na-Dené languages to North America was related to the migration of the bearers of the Dyuktai culture. The lack of parallels for the Na-Dené folklore in Yakutia, Kolyma, Chukotka, and Kamchatka is understandable: the Dyuktai people had gone to Alaska and their …
Buried in a Head
There is a strange story among the fables ascribed to Aesop. It was preserved by Aristophanes and tells about the lark, who was born before the creation of the earth and had to bury her dead father in her own head. This article investigates Indian, Arabic, and North and West African parallels to this story. The analysed texts share several specific details, and the motif ‘buried in a head’ lying at the base of them is found worldwide only in a fe…
The Captive Khan and the Clever Daughter-in-Law
The Aarne-Thompson-Uther index contains rich data on the tale repertoire of the main areas of Eurasia and North Africa, but it is still Eurocentric, and does not reflect many widespread tale-types that are not registered in Europe or rarely found across the region.We have revealed several plots of such kind.Their distribution seems to point to the eastern part of the Great Steppe as the area of their origin.Later on waves of nomads might have bro…
Siberia and Central Asia as a Region of Innovations (Folklore Data)
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The Steppe, the Forest and the Tundra Components in Siberian and North American Cosmonymies
Manifestation of Worldviews in Traditional Narratives
Data on the areal distribution of motifs extracted from ca 25,000 traditional narratives were computed with the purpose of revealing a chronology of the emergence of particular mythological themes. The statistical processing of this material allowed selection of sets of motifs that probably correspond to the routes of major prehistoric migrations known thanks to archaeology and population genetics. Our conclusions are largely based on the compari…
Athabaskan–Siberian Folklore Links
The North American Na-Dene languages, most of them belonging to the Athabaskan branch, are possibly related to the Yeniseian languages of Siberia. A series of episodes of traditional narratives link the Na-Dene with the Altai-Sayan region. The creators of the Sumnagin culture of eastern and north-eastern Siberia, who possibly reached Alaska in the Early Holocene, seem the most plausible candidates for the proto-Na-Dene speakers, although interpre…
The Travelling Girl and Her Helpful Siblings
After presenting the results of statistical processing of data on the distribution of folklore motifs in Eurasia, the author describes a previously unnoticed tale that is widespread across Northern Asia. The protagonist of the story is a travelling girl who successfully competes with her rival, often a frogwoman. In the beginning, the heroine parts with her brother(s) or sister, taking them for dead or disappeared forever. Later they appear again…
The Tale of Tsar Saltan” (Tale Type Atu 707) and Eurasian-American Parallels
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Areal Connections of Ancient Japanese Mythology
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