Healing properties of berry plants in Karelian folk medicine (based on field research) [PDF]
Introduction. The research analyzes and systematizes the field materials of folk medicine of the Karelians collected by the authors among the Karelians living in Karelia in the 2000-ies. Materials and Methods.
Tatyana V. Pashkova +1 more
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The Finnic Peoples of Russia: Genetic Structure Inferred from Genome-Wide and Y-Chromosome Data [PDF]
Igor Evsyukov +2 more
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Ludians’ harbingers of impending death and their representations of transition to the underworld [PDF]
Introduction. The author studies religious and mythological representations regarding the death of one of a little-studied ethnic groups which are Ludian Karelians.
Sergei A. Minvaleev
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Entomological images in Karelian beliefs
Introduction. Insects act as an element of the mythological system and rituals, provided by a variety of functions, occupied a certain place in the rituals, beliefs and medical practice of the Karelians. Among domestic insect parasites, the lice are most
Yevgeniy V. Karakin, Tatyana V. Pashkova
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Image of a snake in Karelian folk medicine
Introduction. The article considers the use of animal products in Karelian folk medicine in the XIX – early XX centuries. Special attention is paid to the functions of a snake in the medical practice of Karelians in comparison with Veps, Finns and ...
Tatyana V. Pashkova
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Parallelism in Karelian Laments [PDF]
Karelian laments are performed by women during a ritual -- funerals, weddings, and recruiting ceremonies -- and were once commonly used in other contexts of everyday life. Laments are works of a special kind of improvisation. They were created during the
Stepanova, Eila
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Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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What Are Karelians Made of, RuNet?
The social construction of the concepts of Karelian people, culture, and land develops in temporal flux. In the 2010s, the expansion of internet usage empowered previously unheard voices engaging these concepts in Russia.
Teemu Oivo
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Folklore Archive and Historical Reality (Based on the Archive Materials of the Institute of Language, Literature and History, Karelian Research Centre RAS) [PDF]
The paper discusses the content of one of the largest folklore archives in Russia belonging to the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Systematic work of collecting folklore,
Valentina P. Kuznetsova +1 more
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The paper examines the main problems of the formation and development of the “foreign” school in the European North of Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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