Overview

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 of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, while journeying through various eras under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule. In the process, she explores how contemporary political struggles mesh with traditional beliefs, illustrating how Veps make meaning of their history and unfolding future. A documentary entitled Museum Night is available for instructors who wish to incorporate it into their teaching.

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Long Night at the Vepsian Museum, is a well-written and engaging contribution to the literature on Post-Soviet Russia and indigenous cultural production. Moreover, the book's accessibility and clean prose will make it of interest to not only scholars of these fields, but also undergraduate educators looking for a snappy and thought-provoking syllabus addition. - A. Lorraine Kaljund - EuropeNow By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of reciprocity with master spirits that ensured Karelia's natural bounty, Davidov offers an altogether new paradigm for understanding Indegeneity in the modern world. - E. J. Vajda - Choice Connect, June 2018 vol. 55 # 10 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

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 Long Night at the Vepsian Museum, is a well-written and engaging contribution to the literature on Post-Soviet Russia and indigenous cultural production. Moreover, the book's accessibility and clean prose will make it of interest to not only scholars of these fields, but also undergraduate educators looking for a snappy and thought-provoking syllabus addition. - A. Lorraine Kaljund - EuropeNow By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of reciprocity with master spirits that ensured Karelia's natural bounty, Davidov offers an altogether new paradigm for understanding Indegeneity in the modern world. - E. J. Vajda - Choice Connect, June 2018 vol. 55 # 10

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 reciprocity with master spirits that ensured Karelia's natural bounty, Davidov offers an altogether new paradigm for understanding Indegeneity in the modern world. -- E. J. Vajda * Choice Connect, June 2018 vol. 55 # 10 * Long Night at the Vepsian Museum, is a well-written and engaging contribution to the literature on Post-Soviet Russia and indigenous cultural production. Moreover, the book's accessibility and clean prose will make it of interest to not only scholars of these fields, but also undergraduate educators looking for a snappy and thought-provoking syllabus addition. -- A. Lorraine Kaljund * EuropeNow *

Author Information

Veronica Davidov is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth University. She is the suthor of Ecotourism and Cultural Production: An Anthropology of Indigenous Spaces in Ecuador (2013).

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