The Collected Works of Bronislaw Piłsudski, Volume 1: The Aborigines of Sakhalin

Volume 1, The Aborigines of Sakhalin , contains translations into English of the Polish, Russian and Japanese material on, for example, the history, folklore, economic life, shamanism, sexual life, medical anthropology, and the bear festival which has been published between 1898 and 1936, mainly in local journals which are hardly accessible today. English, French and German articles appear in the original language. Dedication Preface The way of Bronislaw Piłsudski • Jerzy Bańczerowski Contents Introduction List of ICRAP contributors Acknowledgements Researcher and friend of Sakhalin natives Bibliography of biographical material concerning B. Piłsudski Bibliography of works by Bronislaw Piłsudski • Alfred F. Majewicz Selected bibliography of works on peoples investigated by Bronislaw Piłsudski and on related problems • Alfred F. Majewicz I. Wants and needs of the Sakhalin Nivhgu (1898) Poetry and songs of the Nivhgu (1911, 1913, 1934, 1904, 1908) II. Information on B. O. Piłsudski (on the basis of letters addressed to the Secretary of the Committee) (1904) B. O. Piłsudski’s letter while on an expedition to Sakhalin (addressed to the Secretary of the Committee) (1905) B. O. Piłsudski’s report on his expedition to the Ainu und Oroks of the island of Sakhalin in the years 1903—1905 ( 1907) The aborigines of Sakhalin (1909) The Ainu (1911) An outline of the economic life of the Ainu on the island of Sakhalin (1906, 1907) A draft of rules for the establishment of authority over the Sakhalin Ainu with short explanations on particular points (1905, 1986) Selected information on individual Ainu settlements on the island of Sakhalin (1907) Statistical data on Sakhalin Ainu for the year 1904 (1907) Leprosy among Nivghu and Ainu (1912, 1913) Pregnancy, delivery, miscarriages, twins, freaks, fertility and sterility, and menstruation among the aboriginal inhabitants of the island of Sakhalin (Nivghu, Ainu and Oroks) (1908, 1909, 1910) Shamanism among the aborigines of Sakhalin (1908, 1909, 1910) On the bear festival of the Ainu on the island of Sakhalin (1914, 1909) Les signes de propriété des Aino (1912) Materials for the study of the language and folklore of the Ainu (1911) Ainu folk-lore (1912) List of objects sent to the Vladivostok Museum of the Society for the Study of the Amur Region on the S/S Mandzhur (1988) From the report on the expedition on the Oroks in 1904 (1913, 1989) Appendices/Notes Appendices 1. Short preliminary report on the Ainu school in the Korsakovsk Regionin 1903-1904 2. Short Report on the Ainu elementary school in the Korsakovsk Region for the years 1904—1905 Notes List of illustrations (with comments) Indices Personal names Place names Index of words in Ainu, Nivhgu, Orok, and other languages Subject index Ideographic index v. 1. The aborigines of Sakhalin v. 2. Materials for the study of the Ainu language and folklore (Cracow 1912) v. 3. Materials for study of the Ainu language and folklore