Virantanaz – An Epic in Vepsian? About the First Attempt at an Epic [PDF]
Eesti Ja Soome-Ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 The paper is a brief account of the events of the past 20 years, which have been essential for the fate of the Veps, and brought the author, who found herself in the very heart of the processes of Vepsian language and culture revival, to the idea of ...
Nina Zaitseva
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Vepsian Literature as an Aspiration to the Revival of the People (“Up the Stairs Leading Down”?)
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2021 The article is devoted to the development of the literature of the Vepsians of the early written people of Russia, whose language is included in the Red Book of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia (the number of people in 2010 was 5936 people ...
Nina G Zaytseva
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Metaphors of Language: The Vepsian Ecology Challenges an International Paradigm
Eesti Ja Soome-Ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 At present Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority in north-western Russia, live in three different administrative regions, i.e., the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts.
Laura Siragusa
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A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman [PDF]
Journal of Ethnology and FolkloristicsAbstract This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018.
Eva Saar, Madis Arukask
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Magic of Words: Lexemes with Semantics ‘Spell’ and ‘to Spell’ in Vepsian (Etymological-Semantic and Linguo-Geographical Aspects) [PDF]
Научный диалог, 2022 A comparative analysis of the Veps language lexemes with the semantics ‘spell’ (puheg, puitoomine), as well as verbs with the meaning ‘to spell; pronounce incantations.
O. Yu. Zhukova, N. G. Zaitseva
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Serpent Symbolism in Vepsian Incantations
Incantatio an International Journal on Charms Charmers and Charming, 2017 Incantations are a little known and virtually unstudied genre of Vepsian folklore. About 35 incantations devoted to snakes were derived from published sources, as well as from archival and field materials. These texts formed the basis for the present study.
Irina Vinokurova
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Prose Miniatures as an Experience of Self-Identification (Author's Mini-Texts in the Vepsian Language) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Prose miniatures of Alexander Ulyanov are analyzed not only as a way of self-expression of the author's ego, but also as an experience of self-identification, awareness of their place in the social world order and historical time.
Ivanova Galina
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Lexical Representations of “Christian” and “Human” in the Vepsian and Karelian Languages
Finno-Ugric WorldIntroduction. The relevance of this research stems from the need to examine the underlying processes of transformation in the cultural identity of the Vepsians and Karelians under the influence of centuries of Christianization, as reflected in their ...
Daniil Yu. Balandin, Tatyana V. Pashkova
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К вопросу типологии словарей карельского, вепсского, финского языков [Typology of Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish Dictionaries] [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaTypology of Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish Dictionaries The article is a theoretical review, which raises important aspects concerning Finnic lexicography.
Irina Kyurshunova +2 more
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Ethnic structure of the population of the Southern Obonezhye at the end of the XV century
Финно-угорский мир, 2019 Introduction. On the southern coast of Lake Onega there is a significant layer of Baltic-Finnish geographical names. The medieval ethnic history of this region remains poorly understood.
Boris I. Chibisov
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