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A certain attitude towards the natives of the northern part of WestSiberia ‐ the Khantys and the Nenets ‐ was established by the 19th century authors and, at a certain level this attitude can be observed even in contemporary ethnographic texts. Golovnev for example argues that for a long time the principal researcher of the Samoyed people was Castren, the most important contributor to the study of Ob-Ugric people was Munkacsi. Their renditions and assessments formed the basis of comparison for all the future generations of scientists. This quality to remaining a so-called “paragon of truth” was determined by the methodological unprejudiced ideas in the first flux of research. The arguments of the authors were mainly of personal kind. It is no coincidence that a number of research papers were written in form of journals. None of the authors had made an attempt to comprise culture as a whole, all of them merely tried to observe and disclose as much of the matter as possible. The scientific works of these years constitute the epoch of discovery of the Samoyed-Ugric cultures or the interpretation of these cultures into European languages (Golovnev 1995: 12). It is not quite certain, however, how this estimation applies to Castren ‐ he is rarely mentioned directly. Still, upon the completion of this article the study on this subject was in its initial stage

Ways of Describing Nenets and Khanty «Character » in 19th Century Russian Ethnographic Literature