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The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia
The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.
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Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage
In the mid-2000s, the Russian government began to merge
Siberia's smallest Indigenous territories into larger
administrative regions. Among Buryat Mongols living to the west
of Lake Baikal the state promoted a policy of \"National
Cultural Autonomy,\" which sought to separate culture from
territory amid this consolidation of land and people. Although
public performances of Buryat culture were mobilized to show
support for the policy, Joseph Long's compelling ethnography
provides alternative ways to understand the meanings attached
to these displays. At the same time, the book documents how
resurgent local rituals demonstrated enduring ties to the
land.
Drawing on classic theories of ritual and performance,
Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage explores how Buryat
shamanism and state-sanctioned performing arts have allowed
Buryats to negotiate and express different kinds of belonging
to people and land. Based on several years of anthropological
fieldwork in Western Buryat communities, this book provides new
insights into the ways that these forms have influenced one
another over time.
While Buryat experience has been fundamentally shaped by
Soviet communism and its aftermath,
Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage shows how this
history parallels the experience of Indigenous peoples
worldwide.
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Siberian dream
Originally from a small village in the Buryat region of Siberia, Irina Pantaeva emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980's. Every summer, Irina, a world-famous model, and her son travel back to help her troubled family, trapped in the new free market society struggling with alcoholism, lawlessness and despair. Through interviews with academics, local shamans, monks, musicians, and farmers, Siberian Dream shows the effects of perestroika and glasnost on this Buryat community.The Buryats are trying to develop an open society while struggling to revive their culture. Irina and her family embody these efforts. Buryat-Mongols -- including the Pantaeva family -- practice Buddhism and Shamanism simultaneously. Irina celebrates her endangered Buryat-Mongol culture, teaching her son the importance of honoring their ancestors. Dr. David Foglesong, Professor of Russian History at Rutgers, illuminates the effects of Russification and the events and personalities driving glasnost and perestroika. Dr. Robert Thurman, Professor of Religion at Columbia University and President of Tibet House, New York, discusses Tibetan Buddhism and history as it affected the Mongolian tribes to which the Buryats belong.
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