1. Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia.
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King, Matthew W
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SHAMANS , *HISTORICAL literacy , *BUDDHISTS , *HISTORY of anthropology , *ORTHODOX Christianity , *RELIGIOUS identity ,HISTORY of the Soviet Union - Abstract
In addition to the well-worn observation that rituals do not simply enact but produce social realities, and moving beyond the exhausted note that rituals produce visions of history, Quijada attends to the complex narrative content of the historical knowledge made by Buryats in original and remarkably effective ways. In different ritual genres, or in different narrative frames connected to a single ritual, Quijada's Buryat informants link models of time to place. Justine Buck Quijada's I Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia i explores this fascinating question. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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