Facing Challenges of Identification: Investigating Identities of Buryats and Their Neighbor Peoples – EBOOK

The volume discusses the dynamically changing identities among Buryats and other nations of Eastern Siberia and Inner Asia. The wide range of articles has been organized into three clusters – Ethnicity and Nation-Building Processes, Buddhist Identities, and Landscape and Indigenization. Some of the papers present anthropological empirical research of particular groups, while other adopt a perspective of literary or ecological studies. Constituting an interdisciplinary endeavor, the volume tries thus to link the diverse phenomena under investigation and different research methodologies, and to show them in a wider context of historical and transnational processes. Lastly, it aims at bringing new theoretical perspectives to studies of nations and peoples of broadly understood Inner Asia.

Keywords: Buryats, Inner Asia, anthropology, identity, ethnicity, Buddhism.

Kamil M. Wielecki – is an anthropologist and social philosopher, PhD in ethnology and cultural anthropology, assistant professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork research in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Russia (Central Siberia and Dagestan). His areas of interest include postsocialist studies, social transformations and economic anthropology. He is the author of Coping with Uncertainty: Petty Traders in Post-Soviet Russia (2015).







Ivan Peshkov – is a Russian-Polish social anthropologist. His research is focused on the politicization of quasi-indigenousness in the Russo-Chinese border areas, frontier biopolitics in Eurasia, the Evenki (in Siberia and China) and memory work in Inner Mongolia and Transbaikalia. He has carried out research on the Chinese-Russian-Mongolian border, investigating the main economic and historical processes that characterize the area.

Ayur Zhanaev, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-8811
Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretation of Buryat Genealogies
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.79-98

Nikolai Baikalov, https://orcid.org/
BAM and BAMers: Peculiarities of Identity Formation
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.227-254

Darima Amogolonova, https://orcid.org/
Buddhism and Orthodoxy in Buryatia: Religious Interaction in the Context of Russian Imperial Politics
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.135-152

Bair Nanzatov, https://orcid.org/
Marina Sodnompilova, https://orcid.org/
Buryat Ethnic Identity at Various Stages of Ethnic History
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.49-64

Marina Sodnompilova, https://orcid.org/
Bair Nanzatov, https://orcid.org/
Buryat Ethnic Self-Identifi cation: New Trends and Aspects in the 21st Century
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.65-78

Darima Bajko, https://orcid.org/
Ecological Discourse in the Cross-Border Region of the Selenga River in Russia and Mongolia
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.207-226

Bato Dondukov, https://orcid.org/
Electronic Petitions of Russian Buddhists: A Way of Consolidation or Estrangement?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.153-176

Jan Kieniewicz, https://orcid.org/
Identifying Local People: Colonial and Postcolonial Practices in Central Asia
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.23-48

Zbigniew Szmyt, https://orcid.org/
Indigenization of Urban Landscape in Ulan-Ude
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.179-206

Daria Burnasheva, https://orcid.org/
Searching for a New Identity in a New Era: Emergence and Development of Sakha (Yakutia) as an Arctic Region
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.255-278

Kamil Maria Wielecki, https://orcid.org/
Ivan Peshkov, https://orcid.org/
The Buryat Case and Beyond: An Introduction
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.9-19

Galina Dondukova, https://orcid.org/
The Nomad’s Star of Bair Dugarov as the Guiding Light of Post-Soviet Buryatia
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.279-300

Kamil Maria Wielecki, https://orcid.org/
The Spirit That Permeates the Human Soul: Anthropology, National Epic, and Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547334.pp.99-131