Mansi 581040 224647288 2008-07-09T20:17:07Z Deucalionite 335094 /* External links */ Minor fix. {{about|the Mansi people|their language|Mansi language|the town in Burma|Mansi, Burma}} {{ethnic group| |group=Mansi |image= |poptime=11432 ''(rising - it was 8500 in 1989)'' |popplace=[[Russia]] |rels=[[Shamanism]], [[Russian Orthodoxy]] |langs=[[Russian language|Russian]], [[Mansi language|Mansi]] |related language groups, but not ethnic=[[Khanty]], [[Magyars|Hungarians (Magyars)]] }} '''Mansi''' (obsolete: '''Voguls''') are an endangered [[indigenous people]] living in [[Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug|Khantia-Mansia]], an [[autonomous okrug]] within [[Tyumen Oblast]] in [[Russia]]. In Khantia-Mansia, the [[Khanty language|Khanty]] and [[Mansi language|Mansi]] languages have co-official status with [[Russian language|Russian]]. The Mansi have been in contact with the Russian state at least since the 16th century when most of Western Siberia was brought under Russian control by [[Yermak Timofeyevich|Ermak]]. Due to their higher exposure to Russian and Soviet control, they are generally more assimilated than their Northern neighbours, the [[Khanty]]. In the 1960s, exploitation of the rich oil deposits of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug began, causing the [[Soviet Union]]'s largest internal migration wave since the Second World War. This led to a dramatic marginalisation of the Mansi and Khanty who today constitute slightly more than one percent of the district's population. At the same time their homeland has been massively devastated by thirty years of oil extraction. As for most other [[Northern indigenous peoples of Russia]], the Soviet state ordered the creation of a "national literature" for the Mansi people which consisted mostly of works hailing the enlightenment and progress brought to the Mansi by [[Lenin]]'s revolution. The most prominent Mansi representative of this genre was the writer [[Yuvan Shestalov]], who after the breakup of the Soviet Union converted to [[shamanism]]. Since then he claims that the Mansi are in fact the descendants of the ancient [[Sumerians]], a claim hardly shared by anyone else. Together with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by the [[Association to Save Yugra]], an organisation founded during the [[Perestroika]] of the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional indigenous associations in Russia. ==Census== The census below was taken in 2002:<ref>[http://www.raipon.org/russian_site/people/people_perepis_2002_rus.htm Mansi census (2002)]</ref> {| class="wikitable" |'''Regions''' !Total !Men !Women |---- |Total |11,432 |5,167 |6,265 |---- |[[Tyumen Oblast]] |10,561 |4,786 |5,775 |---- | *[[Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug]] |9,894 |4,510 |5,384 |---- |[[Sverdlovsk Oblast]] |259 |130 |129 |---- |[[Komi Republic]] |11 |8 |3 |} The [[Mansi language]] is of the [[Ugrian]] branch of the [[Finno-Ugric languages|Finno-Ugric]] family of languages. Anthropologically, the Mansi have high cheekbones and slit eyes. ==External links== *[http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/mansis.shtml The Mansis] *[http://www.btk.pte.hu/tanszekek/finnugor/szekely/Pakin-jurta.html Dr. Gabor Szekely's 1st visit to the Mansis] *[http://www.btk.pte.hu/tanszekek/finnugor/szekely/IIexp.html Dr. Gabor Szekely's 2nd visit to the Mansis] [[Category:Mansi]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in Russia]] [[Category:Indigenous peoples of North Asia]] [[Category:Eurasian nomads]] [[Category:Ugric peoples]] [[ca:Mansis]] [[de:Mansen]] [[myv:Мансить]] [[eo:Mansoj]] [[ko:만시인]] [[pl:Mansowie]] [[ru:Манси]] [[sr:Манси]]