Buddhists, shamans, and Soviets: rituals of history in post-Soviet Buryatia

History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a 'backward' nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march toward the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version...

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Main Author: Quijada, Justine B. 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Image
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2019
In:Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Oxford scholarship online
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Burjatien / Shaman / Buddhist / Collective memory / Ritual
Further subjects:B Buddhism Rituals (Russia (Federation)) (Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡)
B Buriats ; Religion
B Buriats Religion
B Buddhism ; Russia (Federation) ; Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ ; Rituals
B Shamanism ; Russia (Federation) ; Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ ; Rituals
B Shamanism Rituals (Russia (Federation)) (Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡)
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Summary:History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a 'backward' nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march toward the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of history lost its power and Buryats, like other Siberian indigenous peoples, were able to revive religious and cultural traditions that had been suppressed by the Soviet state. In the process, they also recovered knowledge about the past that the Soviet Union had silenced. Borrowing the analytic lens of the chronotope from Bakhtin, this text argues that rituals have chronotopes which situate people within time and space.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 7, 2019)
ISBN:0190916826
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190916794.001.0001