Object structure
Title:

Towards the creation of modern ethnicity and imagined community: ethnofestivals and constructing the Buryat nation

Subtitle:

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

Creator:

Nowicka, Ewa

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:

Buryats ; Ethnofestivals ; Ethnic elites ; Transmission of culture ; Altargana ; Night of Yokhor

Abstract:

The article presents certain aspects of the modern Buryat ethnicity formation. It concentrates on the conscious and intentional activities on the part of ethnic intellectual elites. In the modern world the conditions and opportunities for intergenerational cultural transmission are fundamentally changing. The transmission of culture cannot be limited to traditionally important means – family life or school education. The author finds that ethno-festivals play a prominent role as significant factor in the self-presentation, in ethnic mobilization, in developing aspiration to gain the position of accepted ethnos. Through theatrical productions Buryat elites show “the ownership” of ethnic territory. Struggling to claim its rights, ethnic group has to present its specific cultural pattern – reconstruct or construct new ideology from the selected pieces of knowledge furnished by scholars. The author analyses Buryat ethno-festivals: Altargana and Night of Yokhor. The research material used in this article was collected during subsequent field trips in 2012 and 2013

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Relation:

Etnografia Polska

Volume:

59

Issue:

1-2

Start page:

141

End page:

154

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:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

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

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