Justine Buck Quijada

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets examines indigenous, post-Soviet religious revival in the Republic of Buryatia through the lens of Bakhtin's chronotope. Comparing histories from Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Quijada offers a new lens for analyzing ritual and an innovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know their past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190916794
• ISBN-10: 0190916796
• Artikelnr.: 54147315

Autorenporträt

Justine Buck Quijada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on shamanism, secularism, and ritual. She is co-editor of Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Note on Transliterations, Translations and Photographs
* Chronology
* Introduction: If you want to have a future you have to have a good
relationship to your past
* Chapter 1: An Inauguration for Etigelov: Multiple Genres of History
in Buryatia
* Chapter 2: Soviet Selves: Victory Day
* Chapter 3: City Day, Hospitality, the Friendship of the Peoples and
Multikulturalizm
* Chapter 4: Etigelov at Maidari: The Once and Future Buddhist
* Chapter 5: Opening the Center, Opening the Roads
* Chapter 6: Porous Selves: Yuri's Initiation
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Notes
* Index