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Long Night at the Vepsian Museum: The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival
Veronica Davidov
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Description for Long Night at the Vepsian Museum: The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. This tiny community is populated by an indigenous people known as Veps, colloquially referred to as the forest folk for their intense affiliation with forests on their ancestral lands. Davidov uses a tour of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, and to explore various time periods under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule. In the process, she examines how contemporary political struggles mesh with traditional beliefs while illustrating how ... Read more
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. This tiny community is populated by an indigenous people known as Veps, colloquially referred to as the forest folk for their intense affiliation with forests on their ancestral lands. Davidov uses a tour of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, and to explore various time periods under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule. In the process, she examines how contemporary political struggles mesh with traditional beliefs while illustrating how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442636187
SKU
V9781442636187
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About Veronica Davidov
Veronica Davidov is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth University.
Reviews for Long Night at the Vepsian Museum: The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival
Long Night at the Vepsian Museum is an ethnography that documents the history and current cultural struggles of the Veps people, a Finno-Ugric speaking minority community that lives in Russia's Karelia region, on the border with Finland.
Samantha Lomb
EuropeNow
By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of ... Read more
Samantha Lomb
EuropeNow
By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of ... Read more