Mansi people
 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 12,300 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug(Russia) | |
 Russia | 12,228 (2021)[1][2] |
 Ukraine | 43 (2001)[3] |
| Languages | |
| Mansi,Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Shamanism,Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Khanty,Hungarians | |
TheMansi(Mansi:Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум,[4]Māńsi / Māńsi māhum,IPA:[ˈmaːnʲsʲi,ˈmaːnʲsʲiˈmaːxʊm]) are anOb-UgricIndigenous people living inKhanty–Mansia,anautonomous okrugwithinTyumen Oblastin Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, theKhantyandMansilanguages have co-official status with Russian. TheMansi languageis one of the postulatedUgric languagesof theUralicfamily. The Mansi people were formerly known as theVoguls.[5]
Together with theKhanty people,the Mansi are politically represented by theAssociation to Save Yugra,an organisation founded duringPerestroikain the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional indigenous associations in Russia.
Demographics[edit]
| Total | Men | Women | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 12,228 | 5,685 | 6,543 |
| Tyumen Oblast | 11,583 | 5,356 | 6,227 |
| *Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug | 11,065 | 5,136 | 5,929 |
| Sverdlovsk Oblast | 334 | 170 | 164 |
| Komi Republic | 5 | 3 | 2 |
According to the 2021 census, there were 12,228 Mansi in Russia.
History[edit]
The ancestors of the Mansi people populated the areas west of the Urals.[7]Mansi findings have been unearthed in the vicinity ofPerm.[7]In the first millennium BC, they expanded toWestern Siberia,where they assimilated with the native inhabitants.[7]Other researchers say that the Khanty people originated in the south Ural steppe and moved northwards into their current location in about 500 AD.[8]
As perNestor the Chronicler,Uleb Ragnvaldsson,posadnikofNovgorod,led a war party to conquerYugra,to conquer the historical homeland of theKhanty(a.k.a. Ostyaks) and Mansi (Voguls). Ragnvaldsson was defeated nearSyktyvkar,as the Mansi still inhabited large areas west of theUrals.This is one of the first records of Novgorod and later Russia claiming dominance over a land where they had no or negligible presence.
Some Russian historians[who?]claim that the Yugra were subjugated during the 12th century, but historical records show that Russian power was only established in the middle of the 18th century. Most likely the Khanty people were not initially aware they had been claimed as subjects of Novgorod or Russia, and their "new" masters were not aware of who their subordinates were.
During the middle ages, it is possible that the Mansi considered the eastern Novgorod and Grand Duchy of Moscow areas as their own. Russian folklore identifies the people of Yugra as being bloodthirsty, as natives of Yugra may have made raids into areas controlled by Novgorod or Moscow.[9]The 15th and 17th centuries were the peak times when the Mansi conducted war parties on Russian lands. Mansi principalities' leaders had sworn allegiance to the RussianTsar,however they did interpret this differently from Russians. Mansi lords used these sworn allegiances to convince local Mansi populations that they were direct subjects of the Russian supreme leader, and hence had full right to punishRussian nobilityfor their wrongdoings. Raids and war parties against Russian nobility created confusion in the regions near the Ural mountains. As a result, they were also popular withRussian peasants,as they gave them freedom to improve their lives by stealing with "permit from Tsar" whatever they wished from nobility.[9]
During the 15th and 17th centuries, there were many conflicts among natives of Yugra in which sometimes Moscow was involved, but from the 17th century, Russia became the dominant power. There were many conflicts where the Mansi fought against the Khanty, Nenets, Tatars or Russians, changing allies as fit their needs.
The Mansi people were divided into principalities such asKondia.In the 15th and 16th century, these were divided into three categories: central, southern and northern. The central principalities were partially included in theGrand Duchy of Moscow,some southern principalities were subjects ofSiberian Khanate,and the northern principalities were independent as knowledge of them was limited outside of the region. At the end of the 16th century, the Russian Empire made a decision to conquer the principalities. The push came under the Russian CossackatamanYermak,and its influence did reach the natives in theObi riverregion, starting a time of troubles lasting until the times ofPeter the Greatin the 18th century. It took until end of the 17th century for the Russians to reach every corner of the their claimed areas. This resulted in number of wars between Mansi principalities and the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
Kondiawas the most powerful principality in Yugra in the 17th century, and was stillde factoindependent at the beginning of the 18th century. During that period there was an attempt toChristianizethe Mansi and others living in same region.[10]Kondia raised an army of several hundred men and drove themissionariesout from their lands. Kondia was also unique in that it did not pay theyasaktax until 1620, when Russia started demanding it from them.[11]
In 1609, the leadership of Kondia planned to push Russia out from Siberia and attackedBeryozovo.To increase the chances of success, alliances with other principalities, includingKhantyprincipalities, were considered. Finally with the Obdorski, Belogorje and Sosva principalities, an attack was made on Beryozovo. The alliance with Khanty-run Obdorski may have been influenced by the fact that Obdorski destroyed a Russian war party in thetundrain 1600. The war was not successful and Russians pushed for a change of leadership in Kondia. Noblewoman Anna stepped down but continued to rule behind the scenes via her son and grandson. As a result, the Russianyasakwas not paid until 1620, when Russia started demanding it specifically. Peace did not last long, as the Khanty nobility formed another alliance with Khanty nobleman Mamruk to drive the Russians away. Another conflict began in 1611-1612, when Kondia started another war to drive the Russians out, unsuccessfully.[11]
Kinema and Sueta, rulers of the Bardak principality, whose area is located in the present day town ofSurgut,attacked the village of Surgut in 1691. They stole the funds of the local administration and panic broke out in Surgut. The funds stolen had come from ta xing theNenets,as local Mansi were either excluded from paying taxes or chose to ignore taxes. Russians responded to this offence by liquidating the principality and enforcing taxes on all the residents.
The last conflict between the Mansi and the Russian state was theKazym rebellionin 1931–1934, where natives ofKhanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugrebelled. The rebellion was crushed by theRed Army.This was the last known conflict between Russia and any of the Siberian tribes.
Relationship with historical Magyar conquerors[edit]
The Mansi are one of the closest linguistic relatives of modernHungarians.Genetic data by Maroti et al. revealed high genetic affinity between Magyar conquerors and modern dayBashkirs,with both being modeled as ~50% Mansi-like, ~35%Sarmatian-like, and ~15%Hun/Xiongnu-like. Theadmixtureevent is suggested to have taken place in theSouthern Uralregion in 643–431 BC.[12]
Culture[edit]
The Mansi share many similarities with theKhanty peopleand together they are called the Ob-Ugric peoples.Their languagesare closely related but clearly distinct from each other.[13]
Traditional livelihood[edit]
The Mansi were semi-nomadichunters and fishermen. Some Mansi also raised reindeer. A few Mansi engaged in agriculture (cultivating barley) and raised cattle and horses.[14]
During the winter, the Mansi lived in stationary huts made out of earth and branches at permanent villages. During the spring, the Mansi moved towards hunting and fishing grounds, where they constructed temporary rectangular-shaped shelters out of birch bark and poles.[14]
Weapons used by the Mansi were advanced for the period and included longbows, arrows, spears. They also wore iron helmets and chain mail.[14]
Folk culture[edit]
A notable part of the traditional Mansi religion is thebear cult.A bear celebration is held in connection with the bear hunt (a similar concept to theFinnishpeijaiset); it lasts for several days and involves songs, dances and plays. Mansi folklore also includes mythical and heroic stories and fate songs, which are biographical poems.[13]
An example of the traditional material culture of Ob-Ugric peoples is ornamenting leather clothing and birch bark objects with mosaics.[13]
Genetics[edit]
Uniparental lineages[edit]
The majority of Mansi men carryhaplogroup N,which is commonly found amongUralic-speaking peoples. 60 percent of them carry its subcladeN1b-P43and 16 percent belong to subcladeN1c.[15]
The maternal lineages among Mansi are more heterogeneous. The most common mitochondrial DNA haplogroup for Mansi isU,as about one in four has it. Most of them (16.6%) belong to its subgroupU4.Other haplogroups includeC(18.6%),H(15.1%),J(13.1%) andD(12.6%).[15]
Autosomal DNA[edit]
According to a 2019 study, in addition to having a high level of East Eurasian-like ancestry, the Mansi have also West Eurasian admixture. Their admixture can be modelled to be about 60% Bronze AgeBaikal Lake-like and 40%Srubnaya-like, or about 54%Nganasan-like and about 38% Srubnaya-like, with additionalANE-related admixture.[16]
In a 2018 study, Mansi samples showed variation in the amounts of West and East Eurasian admixtures. Some of them clustered with the Khanty, while outlier samples had additional West Eurasian admixture, making them closer to Uralic-speakers from theVolga-Uralregion.[15]
Notable Mansi[edit]
- Matrena Vakhrusheva(1918–2000), linguist,philologist,writer; co-wrote the first Mansi-Russian dictionary
- Yuvan Shestalov(1937–2011), writer
- Ruslan Provodnikov(b. 1984), boxer (Mansi mother)
- Sergey Ustiugov(b. 1992), cross-country skier (Mansi father)
- Sergey Sobyanin(b. 1951), current mayor ofMoscow
References[edit]
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- ^Ромбандеева Е. И. (2005).Русско-Мансийский словарь: учебное пособие[Russian-Mansi dictionary: textbook] (in Russian). СПб.: Миралл. p. 129.ISBN5-902499-14-3.
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- ^"Национальный состав населения".Federal State Statistics Service.Retrieved30 December2022.
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Further reading[edit]
- "Мифы, сказки, предания манси (вогулов):в записях 1889, 1952, 1958-1960, 1968, 1978, 1992, 2002 годов "[Myths, fairy tales, legends from the Mansi/Vogul, collected in...]. Ин-т филологии СО РАН и др.; подгот. текстов, пер., вступ. ст., коммент., указ., слов., сост. компакт-диска Е. И. Ромбандеевой. Москва; Новосибирск: Наука, 2005.
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