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Long night at the Vepsian Museum : the forest folk of Northern Russia and the struggle for cultural survival / Veronica Davidov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidov, Veronica, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veps--Russia (Federation)--Sheltozero--History.
- Veps.
- Veps--Russia (Federation)--Sheltozero--Ethnic identity.
- Veps--Russia (Federation)--Sheltozero--Social life and customs.
- Veps--Russia (Federation)--Sheltozero--Religion.
- Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Sheltozero.
- Ethnology.
- Sheltozero (Russia)--Religious life and customs.
- Sheltozero (Russia).
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations, photographs, map
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-3620-3
- 1-4426-3621-1
- OCLC:
- 1015239923
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