«род» (Russian)

Draft for expert review

No definition is published for this term yet; the questions below are what the project needs answered before a meaning can be shown.

Open questions

1. Which Russian-language sources — imperial administration, Soviet ethnography, present-day usage — apply «род» to Buryat groups, and what did each mean by it?
2. Where «род» is an administrative unit in imperial documents, which local term did it translate, if any?
3. How does present-day родовая идентичность relate to the earlier administrative «род»?
4. When should «род» be left untranslated in English?

«род» (Russian)

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