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Buddhists Shamans and Soviets by Justine Buck Quijada, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Buddhists Shamans and Soviets by Justine Buck Quijada, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Buddhists Shamans and Soviets by Justine Buck Quijada, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Buddhists Shamans and Soviets by Justine Buck Quijada, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version ofhistory 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 lensof the chronotope from Bakhtin, Quijada argues that rituals have chronotopes which situate people within time and space. As they revived rituals, Post-Soviet Buryats encountered new historical information and traditional ways of being in time that enabled them to re-imagine the Buryat past, and whatit means to be Buryat. Through the temporal perspective of a reincarnating Buddhist monk, Dashi-Dorzho Etigelov, Buddhists come to see the Soviet period as a test on the path of dharma. Shamanic practitioners, in contrast, renegotiate their relationship to the past by speaking to their ancestorsthrough the bodies of shamans. By comparing the versions of history that are produced in Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets offers a new lens for analyzing ritual, a new perspective on how an indigenous people grapples with a history of state repression, and aninnovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know about the past. | Buddhists Shamans and Soviets by Justine Buck Quijada, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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