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David Z. Scheffel is professor of anthropology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.[1] Scheffel is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including In the Shadow of Antichrist (Broadview Press, 1991), a work on the Russian Orthodox breakaway Old Believers sect in Alberta.

Scheffel's efforts to help impoverished Roma rebuild their community in the Slovakian village of Svinia is the subject of a 1998 documentary film, The Gypsies of Svinia.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Sect finds freedom in wilderness". Calgary Herald. 26 December 1981. p. G23. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  2. ^ "The Gypsies of Svinia". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 20 February 2014.

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