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Имущественные права женщины в традиционном вепсском обществе
Female PROPERTY RIGHTS IN TRADITIONAL VEPSian SOCIETY

Author(s): A. V. Bol’shakova
Subject(s): History
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: history of Karelia; history of Leningrad region; gender history; «veps» woman; legal status of а woman; customary law; traditional society; family property

Summary/Abstract: The article gives a general overview of the specific characteristics of property rights, which a woman in the traditional culture of «veps» (a numerically small ethnic group in the North-West of the Russian Federation) had. The research is based on the data stored in the Scientific Archive of the Russian Ethnographic Museum (Saint-Petersburg), the Archive of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Saint-Petersburg), the Archive of the Karelian Research Centre of RAS (Petrozavodsk) and on the preceding historical-ethnographical studies.

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