Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Symbols of Post-Soviet Buryat National Consolidation

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2011 4 (6)
Authors
Skrynnikova, Tatyana D.; Amogolonova, Darima D.
Contact information
Skrynnikova, Tatyana D. : Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, SB, Russian Academy of Sciences , 6 Sakhyanovoi, Ulan-Ude, 670047 Russia; Amogolonova, Darima D. : Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, SB, Russian Academy of Sciences , 6 Sakhyanovoi, Ulan-Ude, 670047 Russia , e-mail:
Keywords
Nationalism; ethnicity; re-ethnicization; historical and cultural memory; desecularization
Abstract

The paper presents the findings of research that constitutes a part of a larger project titled Buryat Ethnicity in the Context of Sociocultural Modernization. This is the first time scholars studying Buryatia have undertaken such a comprehensive research on the question of the relationship between the Buryat ethnic consolidation integration and sociocultural modernization. The complex methodological principles introduce new ground for scientific discourse to analyze the processes of national-cultural revival far beyond the Buryat topic. The research of ethnopolitical processes analyzes: (i) elites activities directed at re-ethnicization; (ii) coexistence and opposition of national (ethnic) and Russian (civil) identities by placing ethnicity in the first place within the hierarchy of ideological, public, and individual identities; construction of a so-called boundary identity that implies a separation from Russia and an affinity for other historical and cultural groups; and (iii) identification of distinct stages in discourses of ethnicity. The authors argue that sociopolitical discourses in Buryatia are ethnonationalist and ethnoregional with simultaneous recognition that political processes among Buryats occur in the conditions of recognized identification within Russia, which nevertheless loses in competing with ethnic identity.

Pages
792-804
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2397

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