Finding "Their Own": Revitalizing Buryat Culture Through Shamanic Practices in Ulan-Ude

• Published in: Problems of post-communism Vol. 62; no. 5; pp. 258 - 272
• Main Authors: Quijada, Justine B., Graber, Kathryn E., Stephen, Eric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Armonk Routledge 01.01.2015; M. E. Sharpe Inc
• Subjects: Clans; Criticism; Ethnography; Genealogy; Language; Native languages; Organizational Culture; Patients; Rites & ceremonies; Rituals; Shamans; Social research; Traditions; Urban Areas; Buryatia Russia

The shamans working at the Tengeri Shamans' Organization in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, claim that their work is devoted to reviving "traditional" Buryat culture, despite local criticism of the "nontraditional" institutional nature of their practices. Ethnographic and su...