Vernacularly, Gurans (
Russian: Гураны) are people of
Transbaikalia of local ancestry.[1] In modern times the term also refers to people of mixed ethnic ancestry in Transbaikalia resulted from marriages of
Russians (mostly Transbaikal
Siberian Cossacks) with indigenous people:
Buryats,
Evenks,
Mongols,
Daurs and
Manchus. The term has reportedly been in used since 18th century.[2][3] Vernacularly, the term used to refer to a cossack hunter, later it was a nickname of Transbaikal cossacks.[1]
The word "gurohn" (гуро́хн) means "buck of
Siberian roe deer" in
Buryat language, borrowed into the local Russian vernacular as "guran".[1] It is suggested that the term as applied to the locals is derived from hats made of guran skin with antlers.[2][1]
Some researchers, such as
Namzhil Tsybikov [
ru], consider gurans to be a new emerged ethnos, whose members have a specific culture and outlook.[3]
In modern times the term "gurans" is associated with all population of Transbaikalia of local ancestry and metonymically refers to Transbaikalia as a whole.[4]
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abNamzhil Tsybikov [
ru], "Этногенез и резистентность", In: Народы Забайкалья: возрождение и развитие, Chita, 1997.
Quote: "Забайкалье является уникальным регионом, в котором прослеживаются эти процессы [гибридизации]. Чётко определены временные интервалы миграционных потоков русских, которые вступали в браки с аборигенами, результатом чего явилось рождение нового этноса гуранов"
^Yulia Shchurina, Maria Vyrupaeva, Anastasia Ivanova,
Regional Concepts Verbalization In Transbaikal Territory Media Discourse, In : Man, Society, Communication, Proceedings of International Scientific and Practical Conference Man. Society. Communication (MSC 2020), 23–24 April 2020, Veliky Novgorod, Russian Federation