{"product_id":"9783032277916","title":"The Image of the Bear in Minority Languages and Cultures Myths and Encounters","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Image of the Bear in Minority Languages and Cultures\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMyths and Encounters\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTatiana B. Agranat | Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis collection of essays brings together work devoted to little-known minority cultures represented by endangered, and in some cases disappearing, languages. Each chapter investigates and analyses how bears are perceived in the languages and customs of a culture from an ethnolinguistic perspective. The chapters in Part One explore the way bears are perceived through oral and literary traditions in Western Europe, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Iran and Central Asia. In Part Two, contributors examine stories told by people who have directly encountered bears in Alaska, Greenland, Europe, Central Asia, Siberia and the Russian Far East, and analyze what these stories reveal about their cultural beliefs and environment, as directly expressed in their languages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTatiana B. Agranat \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eis Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, and Head of Group for Finno-Ugric Languages at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor in the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics at Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLeyli R. Dodykhudoeva \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eis Senior Researcher in the Department of Indo-European Languages, Section of Iranian Languages, at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032277916\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47729907302540,"sku":"9783032277916","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032277916","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}