The Historiography and the Sources on the Development of the Dwellings of the Khakass and Russian Long-Term Residents of the Khakass-Minusinsk Region in XVIII–XXI Centuries

Abstract

The paper features the historiography and scientific sources on the traditional housing development of Khakass and Russian long-term residents of the Khakass-Minusinsk region in XVIII–XXI centuries. The research analyzed and summarized the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and Post-Soviet material on the research topic. The analysis revealed that the traditional housing development of the Khakass-Minusinsk residents remains understudied. Scientists made certain attempts to generalize the available material and systematize, characterize, and chronologically organize the known types of Khakass dwellings. However, some issues on the genesis of the certain types of dwelings of both indigenous and foreign population of the KhakassMinusinsk region still remain understudied. There are no comprehensive works that trace all the stages, levels, and nature of multicultural interaction in the manor-housing culture of these groups of population. Ethnographers still have no generally accepted point of view whether the Siberian classifications can be applied to the Khakass dwellings. The scientific sources, however chaotic, make it possible to trace the development of the dwellings in the Khakass-Minusinsk region and provide the research of the complicated processes of the housing genesis in the XVIII–XXI centuries during cultural interaction.

Keywords

• housing study history
• genesis of dwellings
• indigenous dwellings
• material culture
• southern siberia
• khakass natives
• russian long-term residents