"Facing Challenges of Identification"

Spis treści

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