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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Vepsy (their old name is the Chud`) are a very old people of the Russian North (Kareliia, Vologda and neighbors). This book studies the calendar rituals of the Vepsy.
The nationalist conflicts of the 1980-1990s that caused a renewed interest in the problems of ethnic identity, prompted this study of the personal, social, and collective components of ethnicity among four Finno-Ugric people of the Ural area: Mordovians, Udmurts, Marians, and Komi.
This is a history of Karelian folklore in its connection with the history of Karelian literature and the evolution of artistic views. Ingria or Ingermanland are the old names of modern Izhoria. Two more volumes are planned to be published: Literature in Finnish and Karelian languages, and Russian literature of Karelia.
This collection of interviews tells about the little known facts on the migration wave of people of Russia to the Karelian Isthmus (Northern Russia), one of the very important spots in Russian geopolitical confrontation, in the mid of 20th century.
[ The History of culture of the Far East of Russia in the 17th-early 20th centuries : ] Vladivostok: Dal`nauka, 1996 Language: Russian
Price: $ 21.00
This collected work of Far Eastern scholars includes seventeen articles on the history of local culture: the Postal service in the 19th century; publishing activities; calendar and wedding rituals of Slavs in the Far East; animistic beliefs of the Nanai; traditional decorative arts; theatrical and musical education in the 19th century in the Far East, etc.
These are collected articles from the Russian-Finnish symposium, conducted in November 2003, on the base of the Pomor State University. The symposium dealt with actual problems in Funno-Ugric studies and Russian cultural and ethnic identity in folklore, ethnology and other related disciplinary studies.
[ Problems in the history of North-West Russia : ] Moscow: Izdatel`stvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 1995 Language: Russian
Price: $ 22.50
This collected work contains studies in the history, archeology, architecture and numismatics of Northwest Russia, as well as its connections with Scandinavia, Europe, Byzantium, and the Arabic countries.
[ Marriage and family in the Karel`skaia ASSR in 1950-1970s : ] Petrozavodsk: Institut Iazyka, Literatury I Istorii, 1992 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.00
This monograph contains a comparative study of marriage and family life in several ethnic groups living in Karelia in the postwar years. It is based primarily on government statistics and ethnographic and sociological studies conducted in 1979.
This book describes birth, marriage, and burial customs of various Finno-Ugrian peoples. The author points to the adverse influence of education and urbanization on rituals, to modification of rituals, and their current formal use.
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