Monografiya predstavlyaet soboy pervoe v rossiyskoy istoriografii kompleksnoe issledovanie zhivushchey na severo-vostoke Kitayskoy Narodnoy Respubliki maloizuchennoy mongoloyazychnoy narodnosti daury. Osnovu knigi sostavili polevye materialy avtora, sobrannye im vo vremya provedeniya ekspeditsiy v gorodskoy okrug Khulun-Buir Avtonomnogo rayona Vnutrennyaya Mongoliya i provintsiyu Kheyluntszyan KNR (2004-2007, 2011). Avtorom proanalizirovany takzhe rossiyskie i zarubezhnye materialy po issleduemoy teme, izuchen ryad istochnikov, napisannykh na mongol"skoy pis"mennosti. V knige rassmatrivayutsya voprosy rasseleniya, chislennosti, proiskhozhdeniya, rodovogo sostava daurov, issleduyutsya osobennosti ikh khozyaystva i traditsionnoy kul"tury (poseleniy, zhilishch, pishchi, odezhdy, shamanskoy religii, narodnykh igr i prazdnikov, semeynogo byta i t.d.). Vo mnogikh sluchayakh spetsifika material"noy i dukhovnoy kul"tury daurov issleduetsya v sopostavlenii s kul"turoy drugikh narodov. Kniga rasschitana na etnografov, istorikov, shirokiy krug chitateley.