"Facing Challenges of Identification"
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Note on Transliteration 7
The Buryat Case and Beyond: An Introduction 9
I. ETHNICITY AND NATION-BUILDING PROCESSESJan KieniewiczIdentifying Local People: Colonial and Postcolonial Practices in Central Asia 23
Bair Nanzatov, Marina SodnompilovaBuryat Ethnic Identity at Various Stages of Ethnic History 49
Buryat Ethnic Self-Identifi cation: New Trends and Aspects in the 21st Century 65
Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretationof Buryat Genealogies 79
The Spirit That Permeates the Human Soul: Anthropology,National Epic, and Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan 99
II. BUDDHIST IDENTITIESDarima AmogolonovaBuddhism and Orthodoxy in Buryatia: Religious Interaction in the Context of Russian Imperial Politics 135
Electronic Petitions of Russian Buddhists: A Way of Consolidation or Estrangement? 153
LANDSCAPE AND INDIGENIZATIONZbigniew SzmytIndigenization of Urban Landscape in Ulan-Ude 179
Darima BajkoEcological Discourse in the Cross-Border Region of the Selenga River in Russia and Mongolia 207
BAM and BAMers: Peculiarities of Identity Formation 227
Development of Sakha (Yakutia) as an Arctic Region 255
Galina DondukovaThe Nomad’s Star of Bair Dugarov as the Guiding Lightof Post-Soviet Buryatia 279
About the Authors 301