Abstract:Abstract. The article is devoted to social interactions research, particularly to dependency relations in the Kalmyk society of the 17 th -19 th centuries in the context of a discussion about social structure of nomadic people. The scientific relevance of the research is due to the fact that these problems remain understudied and controversial. Nomadologists disagree on many issues of nomads' social organization in general and individually that of the Kalmyks. There still remains some influence of former metho… Show more
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