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Author Davidov, Veronica, 1978- author.

Title Long night at the Vepsian Museum : the forest folk of Northern Russia and the struggle for cultural survival / Veronica Davidov.

Publication Info. North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 130 pages) : illustrations, map
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Teaching culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents History and memory -- Vepsian cosmologies -- Spruce eyelashes and blue eyes of lakes -- The bad masters -- The long night of museums.
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Subject Veps -- Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero -- History.
Veps.
Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero.
History.
Veps -- Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Veps -- Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Veps -- Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero -- Religion.
Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Sheltozero.
Ethnology.
Sheltozero (Russia) -- Religious life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Davidov, Veronica, 1978- Long night at the Vepsian Museum. North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2017] 9781442636194 144263619X (OCoLC)974672304
ISBN 9781442636200 (electronic book)
1442636203 (electronic book)
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