Title:

The authenticity of culture as a problem of everyday life. Actions aimed at the revival of Western Buryat culture

Subtitle:

Etnografia Polska 59 Z. 1-2 2015 (2016)

Creator:

Głowacka-Grajper, Małgorzata

Publisher:

Instytut Archeolgoii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2015 (2016)

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

authenticity ; Buryats ; ethnicity ; Intergenerational transmission ; Politics of culture revival ; shamanism ; tradition

Abstract:

In the paper, the author addresses the issue of different ways of understanding the authenticity of the various elements of culture of Western Buryats living in Irkutsk Oblast. Social conditions in which the question of authenticity exist are determined by Western Buryats’ double minority status (compared to the Russian majority and to Eastern Buryats). The problems result from the interruption of the intergenerational transmission as a result of Stalin’s repressions and the process of building a unified communist society. In the policy of ethnic culture revival which Buryat activists and intelligentsia pursue problems of authenticity of tradition appear constantly. The question of authenticity is not only a problem for anthropologists, historians and social activists. First, it is a question of power: who determines how the Buryats’ past looks like determines also their socio-political status in the modern world. Secondly, it is a problem of everyday life, as it determines health and success in this life and after death. However, in situations where the intergenerational transmission has been broken, there is a competition between the authorities that speak about the past – between local knowledge and the ethnographic and historical data

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Relation:

Etnografia Polska

Volume:

59

Issue:

1-2

Start page:

155

End page:

173

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0071-1861

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 326 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 327 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 325 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open