Introduction

Shiro Sasaki

Chapter 1

Hunting, Fishing and Early Agriculture in Northern Primor’e in the Russian Far East

Nikolay N. Kradin, Yuri G. Nikitin, and Nikolay A. Kliuev

Ethnoarchaeology of Trap Hunting Among the Matagi and the Udehe, Traditional

Hunting Peoples Living Around the Sea of Japan

Hiroyuki Sato

Correlative Significance of Trap-placing and Environmental Differences: Traditional

Hunting in Mountainous Areas of Central and Northern Japan

Hiromi Taguchi

Historical Background to the Distribution of Hunting Techniques and Equipment of the

Peoples of the Lower Amur and Primor�e Regions: Focusing on the Traps Used by the

Udehe to Catch Fur-bearing Animals

Shiro Sasaki

How can we Approach the Issue of Ainu Traps? Ainu Hunting of Small Animals in the

Nineteenth-Century Fur Trade System

Koji Deriha

Ainu Sea Otter Hunting from the Perspective of Sino-Japanese Trade

Kaoru Tezuka

A Mythological Mountain Giant Bringing Hunter�s Luck: Reconstruction of the Ethno-

cultural Ties of the Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Amur Basin and Sakhalin

Sergei Vasil�evich Bereznitsky

The Role of Dogs in Nanai Cults

Andrei Petrovich Samar

Some Ideas on the Principles of Sacral Shaped Areas of the Mohe: Toward the

Reconstruction of Cosmography in Ethnological Methodology

Konstantin Bannikov

Sociolinguistic Situation of the Minority Languages of the Indigenous Peoples of the Far

North

Nadezhda Ya.Bulatova