Gurans (Transbaikal people)
Vernacularly, Gurans (Russian: Гураны) are people of Transbaikalia of local ancestry.[1] In modern times the term also refers to people of mixed ethnic ancestry in Transbaikalia resulted from marriages of Russians (mostly Transbaikal Siberian Cossacks) with indigenous people: Buryats, Evenks, Mongols, Daurs and Manchus. The term has reportedly been in used since 18th century.[2][3] Vernacularly, the term used to refer to a cossack hunter, later it was a nickname of Transbaikal cossacks.[1]
The word "gurohn" (гуро́хн) means "buck of Siberian roe deer" in Buryat language, borrowed into the local Russian vernacular as "guran".[1] It is suggested that the term as applied to the locals is derived from hats made of guran skin with antlers.[2][1]
Some researchers, such as Namzhil Tsybikov, consider gurans to be a new emerged ethnos, whose members have a specific culture and outlook.[3]
In modern times the term "gurans" is associated with all population of Transbaikalia of local ancestry and metonymically refers to Transbaikalia as a whole.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК В ПОЛИЭТНИЧЕСКОМ ЗАБАЙКАЛЬЕ: ДИНАМИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ, (monograph, several authors), Kazan, 2019, ISBN 978-5-00118-444-7, pp. 157, 158, 295, Quote: "А казаков так звали — гуранами, потому что они, когда на охоту соберутся, одеваются, как козёл, чтобы дичь не спугнуть."
- ^ a b Гуран, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia
- ^ a b Namzhil Tsybikov, "Этногенез и резистентность", In: Народы Забайкалья: возрождение и развитие, Chita, 1997.
- Quote: "Забайкалье является уникальным регионом, в котором прослеживаются эти процессы [гибридизации]. Чётко определены временные интервалы миграционных потоков русских, которые вступали в браки с аборигенами, результатом чего явилось рождение нового этноса гуранов"
- ^ Yulia Shchurina, Maria Vyrupaeva, Anastasia Ivanova, Regional Concepts Verbalization In Transbaikal Territory Media Discourse, In : Man, Society, Communication, Proceedings of International Scientific and Practical Conference Man. Society. Communication (MSC 2020), 23–24 April 2020, Veliky Novgorod, Russian Federation
Further reading[edit]
- Владимир Рукосуев, Гураны. Исчезающее племя, 2018, ISBN 978-5-4490-2090-1