Negotiating belonging : ritual, performance and Buriat national culture in Pribaikal'e, Southern Siberia

This thesis explores the relationship between shamanist ritual in Buriat communities in Pribaikal’e and the institutionalised Buriat national culture that was developed by the Soviet state and persists to this day. In Pribaikal’e, I suggest that a local sense of belonging is constituted through rite...

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Main Author: Long, Joseph Jude
Published: University of Aberdeen 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531878