Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets : rituals of history in post-Soviet Buryatia / Justine Buck Quijada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quijada, Justine Buck, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buriats--Religion.

Buriats.

Buddhism--Rituals.

Buddhism.

Shamanism--Rituals.

Shamanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: if you want to have a future you have to have a good relationship to your past

An inauguration for Etigelov: multiple genres of history in Buryatia

Soviet selves: victory day

City day, hospitality, the friendship of the peoples and multikulturalizm

Etigelov at Maidari: the once and future buddhist

Opening the center, opening the roads

Porous selves: Yuri's initiation.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-091681-8

0-19-091682-6

0-19-091680-X