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Pomorcy wczoraj i dziś. Słowiański etnos na wybrzeżach Północy

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Piasecki K.

Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej

2014

vol. 23

The Pomoryans inhabiting the White Sea coasts constitute a very interesting group. Their origin goes back to late Middle Ages when the Slavonic settlers from Great Novgorod and Rostov-Suzdal Rus began to arrive at the shores of the White Sea. There they superimposed themselves on the population speaking Uralic languages, adopting many language and culture elements of other peoples, first of all the so-called Tchud’ Zavolotska. The natural condition forced them to base their economy on fishing, hunting (mostly sea animals) and cattle breeding. They developed ship building and navigation, making long sea journeys already in XVI c, travelling to such places as West Siberia, Novaya Zemla and Spitsbergen. They belonged mostly to Old Faith and very religious, thoug with numerous residual elements of pagan cults.Most of them lost their group self-identity aftre the creation of the USSR. At the beginning of the XXI c the local elite came up with the idea of reconstructing the group identity and turning it into a national one, based on the Pomoryan ethnolect. This brought sharp resistence from the Moscow government, and the question whether the Pomoryans are a nation or not became the political one. The las two censuses showed a clear drop in declaring belonging to the Pomoryan identity

The Birth of New Ethnoses? Examples from Northern Europe

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Piasecki K.

Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture

2014

issue Vol. 3

7-20

One of the new phenomena in the contemporary world is the ongoing emancipation of ethnic groups. This is taking place at various levels both local (regional) and national. The paper presents some examples of such phenomena taken from the area of the Uralic languages of northern Europe. Two come from Lappland: the Kvens and the Finns speaking the Meankieli ethnolect. Two are from the Russian Federation: the Izhma Komi (Isvatas’) and the Pomors, The last two come from Estonia: the Setu and the speakers of the south Estonian Voro language. The Pomors, who are generally regarded to be a Slavic group, have been included because of their acknowledging their mixed Slavic-Uralic origin. The ethnogenesis and contemporary situations of each group are in each case very complex and different. These differences are chiefly due to the political and social situations differing in each Scandinavian country and in Estonia, all of them being different from the same in the Russian Federation.

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The Birth of New Ethnoses? Examples from Northern Europe