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permanent punishment. This is the didactic purpose of chuoVecL'i n'ied'il. «Stories about ancient people» contain elements of much more recent chro­ nology. For example, the legend «The shaman» (text 62) deals with an incident from the Soviet period of Russian history involving the arrival of deported kulaks in Yukaghir lands. Stories ( rasskazy , in Russian) reflect new realities of spiritual and so­ cial life among the Yukaghir. These works contain personages such as a female shaman (text 65), a fortuneteller (text 63), representatives of local government such as the prince ( knyazets, in Russian) and boss (golova , in Russian) who appeared only after the Yukaghir lands had been incorpo­ rated into the Russian Empire (text 64). Also, the genre of stories contains narratives about encounters between humans and supernatural beings treated as real-life events. Examples include stories about «the wandering Chuk­ chi» (sukid’evrej chupchë) (text 67). While traditional stories and legends discuss events of long ago and often contain exaggeration and hyperbole, stories tend to have a simpler plot and style of narration instead. The body of texts is accompanied by a great deal of scholarly analysis, including bibliographic detail of each previously published text, commen­ taries to the translations, various notes regarding the Yukaghir language or material and spiritual culture. Each folkloristic description contains in­ formation on Yukaghir folklore and ethnic history, as well as the genre classification and characteristics of each Tundra Yukaghir work of oral lite­ rature. The article on musicology by T.I. Ignatiyeva provides an analysis of genres of Yukaghir musical folklore: personal songs, songs about animals and birds, lullabies, tales that include snatches of song, shamanic refrains, onomotopoeia, children’s songs, and songs accompanying round dances. An actual recording of some of these genres is provided in the form of a CD affixed to the volume's inside back cover. Written by Sh. Tret’yakova Translated by Edward J. Wajda