Long Night at the Vepsian Museum : : The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival /

Long Night at the Vepsian Museum : : The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival / / Veronica Davidov.

This book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. it highlights a tiny community of indigenous people called Veps, known colloquially as "the forest folk" for their intense closeness and affiliation with the forests in their ancestral territories. Davidov uses a tour...

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Davidov, Veronica,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: History and Memory
  • Chapter 2: Vepsian Cosmologies
  • Chapter 3: Spruce Eyelashes and Blue Eyes of Lakes
  • Chapter 4: The Bad Masters
  • Chapter 5: The Long Night of Museums
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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