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Facing Challenges of Identification: Investigating Identities of Buryats and Their Neighbor Peoples
Facing Challenges of Identification: Investigating Identities of Buryats and Their Neighbor Peoples

Contributor(s): Kamil Maria Wielecki (Editor), Ivan Peshkov (Editor)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Buryats; Inner Asia; anthropology; identity; ethnicity; Buddhism
Summary/Abstract: The volume discusses the dynamically changing identities among Buryats and other nations of Eastern Siberia and Inner Asia. The wide range of articles has been organized into three clusters – Ethnicity and Nation-Building Processes, Buddhist Identities, and Landscape and Indigenization. Some of the papers present anthropological empirical research of particular groups, while other adopt a perspective of literary or ecological studies. Constituting an interdisciplinary endeavor, the volume tries thus to link the diverse phenomena under investigation and different research methodologies, and to show them in a wider context of historical and transnational processes. Lastly, it aims at bringing new theoretical perspectives to studies of nations and peoples of broadly understood Inner Asia.

  • E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4733-4
  • Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4725-9
  • Page Count: 303
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: English
Identifying Local People: Colonial and Postcolonial Practices in Central Asia

Identifying Local People: Colonial and Postcolonial Practices in Central Asia
(Identifying Local People: Colonial and Postcolonial Practices in Central Asia)

Buryat Ethnic Identity at Various Stages of Ethnic History

Buryat Ethnic Identity at Various Stages of Ethnic History
(Buryat Ethnic Identity at Various Stages of Ethnic History)

Buryat Ethnic Self-Identification: New Trends and Aspects in the 21st Century

Buryat Ethnic Self-Identification: New Trends and Aspects in the 21st Century
(Buryat Ethnic Self-Identification: New Trends and Aspects in the 21st Century)

Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretation of Buryat Genealogies

Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretation of Buryat Genealogies
(Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretation of Buryat Genealogies)

The Spirit that Permeates the Human Soul: Anthropology, National Epic, and Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan

The Spirit that Permeates the Human Soul: Anthropology, National Epic, and Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan
(The Spirit that Permeates the Human Soul: Anthropology, National Epic, and Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan)

Buddhism and Orthodoxy in Buryatia: Religious Interaction in the Context of Russian Imperial Politics

Buddhism and Orthodoxy in Buryatia: Religious Interaction in the Context of Russian Imperial Politics
(Buddhism and Orthodoxy in Buryatia: Religious Interaction in the Context of Russian Imperial Politics)

Electronic Petitions of Russian Buddhists: a Way of Consolidation or Estrangement?

Electronic Petitions of Russian Buddhists: a Way of Consolidation or Estrangement?
(Electronic Petitions of Russian Buddhists: a Way of Consolidation or Estrangement?)

Indigenization of Urban Landscape in Ulan-Ude

Indigenization of Urban Landscape in Ulan-Ude
(Indigenization of Urban Landscape in Ulan-Ude)

Ecological Discourse in the Cross-Border Region of the Selenga River in Russia and Mongolia

Ecological Discourse in the Cross-Border Region of the Selenga River in Russia and Mongolia
(Ecological Discourse in the Cross-Border Region of the Selenga River in Russia and Mongolia)

Bam and Bamers: Peculiarities of Identity Formation

Bam and Bamers: Peculiarities of Identity Formation
(Bam and Bamers: Peculiarities of Identity Formation)

Searching for a New Identity in a New Era: Emergence and Development of Sakha (Yakutia) as an Arctic Region

Searching for a New Identity in a New Era: Emergence and Development of Sakha (Yakutia) as an Arctic Region
(Searching for a New Identity in a New Era: Emergence and Development of Sakha (Yakutia) as an Arctic Region)

The Nomad’s Star of Bair Dugarov as the Guiding Light of Post-Soviet Buryatia

The Nomad’s Star of Bair Dugarov as the Guiding Light of Post-Soviet Buryatia
(The Nomad’s Star of Bair Dugarov as the Guiding Light of Post-Soviet Buryatia)