Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage

Ritual, Performance, and Belonging in Buryat Communities of Siberia

Joseph J. Long (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07119-4 (ISBN)

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In the mid-2000s, Russia's government began to merge autonomous regions (okrugs), including the two regions held by its largest indigenous population, the Mongolic-speaking Buryats, into its Siberian administrative territories. As state institutions used public performances of Buryat culture to show support for this separation of nationality from territorial sovereignty, the resurgence of everyday rituals reinforced the same custodial ties to Buryat lands which the National Cultural Autonomy policy was designed to eliminate. In Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage, Joseph J. Long provides new insights into the connections between inward-facing Western Buryat shamanist ritual practices and outward-facing institutionalized performing arts. Both forms of cultural expression have created a space for Buryats to constantly negotiate, renegotiate, and make public different kinds of belonging and, in some cases, have blurred the line between private and public. Based primarily on anthropological fieldwork undertaken in Western Buryat territory during the process of dissolution, this book provides firsthand accounts and original photographs of everyday ritual practices, hearth offering rites, tailgan ceremonies, and dance and folklore routines. Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage explores the relationship between shamanic rituals and formal performing arts, showing how post-Soviet public culture and performances are shaped by one another to create new symbols of national identity

Joseph J. Long is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Research and Policy Lead for Scottish Autism. In 2012 he was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute's J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art for his work on Buryat dance.

Acknowledgments
Notes on transliteration, terminology, and style
Acronyms and abbreviations, groups and associations
Introduction
Mankhai, October 2005
1. Western Buryats in Context
2. Hospitality, Reciprocity, and Everyday Ritual
3. Kinship, Ritual, and Belonging in Western Buryat Communities
4. Constructing Culture, Framing Performance
5. Territorial Unification and National Cultural Autonomy in Cisbaikalia
6. Buryat Dance and the Aesthetics of Belonging
7. Institutionalized Shamanism and Ritual Change
8. Mankhai Revisited: Place-Making and Precedence after Territorial Autonomy
Conclusions, Returns, and Reflections
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	23 b&w photos, 3 maps, 1 b&w table
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-07119-4 / 0253071194
ISBN-13	978-0-253-07119-4 / 9780253071194
Zustand	Neuware