The role of the border in the development and modern realities of the Setos ethnic community
English
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Journal’s Subject Headings:
History, ethnography, archeology
About author:
A. G. Manakov Pskov State University, Pskov, Russian Federation, [email protected]
N. V. Danilkina Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russian Federation, Pskov State University, Pskov, Russian Federation, [email protected]
N. K. Terenina Pskov State University, Pskov, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the study is devoted to the small Finno-Ugric people of the Setos, which is linguistically close to Estonians, but adopted the Orthodox religion. The historical territory of residence of the Setos is Setomaa, which covers Pechora District of Pskov Oblast (Russia) and Setomaa parish of Võrumaacounty (Estonia).
Objective: to reveal the features of the cultural development and economic activity of the Setos, caused by the borderline factor, from the end of the XIX century to the present.
Research materials: the work is based on the results of a series of expeditionary studies in Pechora District of Pskov Oblast (from 1999 to 2021), content analysis of media materials, literature analysis, and expert assessments.
Results and novelty of the research: in the study, the border role in the socio-economic and cultural life of the Setos is considered from the position of the postmodern geopolitical paradigm, where the central place is given to the phenomenon of the cross-border. The novelty of the research is determined by the emphasis on the cross-border socio-economic and cultural contacts of a small ethnic community. Until the revolution, the Setos actively participated in cross-border economic trade, acting as intermediaries between Russian and Baltic provinces. Special attention is paid to the development of the Setos ethnic community after the separation of their settlement area in 1945 by the republican border, which since 1991 has got the status of a state border. As a positive trend in recent decades, the resumption of a number of traditional Seto crafts has been noted in the context of tourist specialization development in the Russian and Estonian border areas. In addition, the specifics of cross-border cultural contacts between Russian and Estonian Setos during the COVID-19 pandemic (in 2020 and the first half of 2021), when there were restrictions on crossing the state border of Russia and Estonia, were considered.
Key words: Finno-Ugric people, cultural contacts, border territories, cross-border, ethnographic tourism.
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the EU Erasmus+Jean Monnet Project (“Transboundary European Regionalisation in Russia and Eastern Partnership: European Dimension and Environmental Drivers”, 611949-EPP-1-2019-1-RU-EPPJMO-PROJECT). The section “Cultural and economic transformations of Setomaa” was carried out with the support of a grant from the Government of the Russian Federation, project № 075-15-2021-611 “Man in the changing space of the Urals and Siberia”.
For citation: Manakov A. G., Danilkina N. V., Terenina N. K. The role of the border in the development and modern realities of the Setos ethnic community // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (4): 731–740.
N. V. Danilkina Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russian Federation, Pskov State University, Pskov, Russian Federation, [email protected]
N. K. Terenina Pskov State University, Pskov, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the study is devoted to the small Finno-Ugric people of the Setos, which is linguistically close to Estonians, but adopted the Orthodox religion. The historical territory of residence of the Setos is Setomaa, which covers Pechora District of Pskov Oblast (Russia) and Setomaa parish of Võrumaacounty (Estonia).
Objective: to reveal the features of the cultural development and economic activity of the Setos, caused by the borderline factor, from the end of the XIX century to the present.
Research materials: the work is based on the results of a series of expeditionary studies in Pechora District of Pskov Oblast (from 1999 to 2021), content analysis of media materials, literature analysis, and expert assessments.
Results and novelty of the research: in the study, the border role in the socio-economic and cultural life of the Setos is considered from the position of the postmodern geopolitical paradigm, where the central place is given to the phenomenon of the cross-border. The novelty of the research is determined by the emphasis on the cross-border socio-economic and cultural contacts of a small ethnic community. Until the revolution, the Setos actively participated in cross-border economic trade, acting as intermediaries between Russian and Baltic provinces. Special attention is paid to the development of the Setos ethnic community after the separation of their settlement area in 1945 by the republican border, which since 1991 has got the status of a state border. As a positive trend in recent decades, the resumption of a number of traditional Seto crafts has been noted in the context of tourist specialization development in the Russian and Estonian border areas. In addition, the specifics of cross-border cultural contacts between Russian and Estonian Setos during the COVID-19 pandemic (in 2020 and the first half of 2021), when there were restrictions on crossing the state border of Russia and Estonia, were considered.
Key words: Finno-Ugric people, cultural contacts, border territories, cross-border, ethnographic tourism.
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the EU Erasmus+Jean Monnet Project (“Transboundary European Regionalisation in Russia and Eastern Partnership: European Dimension and Environmental Drivers”, 611949-EPP-1-2019-1-RU-EPPJMO-PROJECT). The section “Cultural and economic transformations of Setomaa” was carried out with the support of a grant from the Government of the Russian Federation, project № 075-15-2021-611 “Man in the changing space of the Urals and Siberia”.
For citation: Manakov A. G., Danilkina N. V., Terenina N. K. The role of the border in the development and modern realities of the Setos ethnic community // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (4): 731–740.
