Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2018.1470427
V. Gazizova
This article explores aspects of religious innovation that have developed since the early 1990s in the process of the reconstitution of ethnic and religious identity in Kalmykia, a republic in the southwest of Russia. After a brief overview of Kalmyk history and the contemporary Kalmyk Buddhist landscape, the author focuses on new religious groups. Participants call themselves adherents of a “cosmic religion,” involving the worship of the deity the White Old Man. Their beliefs and ritual activities are based on texts allegedly dispatched from the cosmos in an unknown language. The article draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2011 and 2012.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2018.1470426
D. Arzyutov
This article analyses the social life of narratives within the contemporary Ak-Jang [Ak-Çaŋ] movement of the Altai people of Southern Siberia, based on periodic fieldwork from 2009-2012, with recent updates using the Internet and short trips. The author argues that the Ak-Jang movement, while it has roots and commonalities in the Burkhanist “new religion” of the turn of the twentieth century, also has divergences. While both were politically oppositionist, Ak-Jang members today mobilize against formal, official Buddhism and against outsiders, including tourists. Focus of the article is on written texts, often defending the ecology of sacred lands, stemming from cosmic “messages” received by Ak-Jang members.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1450549
Olga Brednikova
The return of migrants home is problematic because it manifests important gaps at the social, identificational, and everyday levels. The social gaps are caused by forced restructuring of social networks. Breaks at the identificational level are associated with acquisition of the migrant’s unique experience of being “out”, with the transnational multiplication of social reality, as well as with the production of distance from the host community. Breaks at the level of everyday life are embodied in the assimilation of new social practices and corporeal idioms. The study of the phenomenon of return through the transnational, biographical, and identificational lenses seems informative and nonobvious. The analysis of migrants’ emotions, perceptions of the past and the future (in particular, the phenomenon of nostalgia and myth of the return), as well as everyday practices and their physical incarnations provides rich material for the interpretation of the phenomenon.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1450557
D. Vinokurova
Migration has played a leading role in the process of urbanization in Yakutia from the outset. In the Soviet period, it occurred when migrants arrived en masse from beyond the confines of the republic due to administrative regulation. This raised concerns about the ability of new settlers to adapt to their unfamiliar surroundings. In the twentieth century, a clear distinction was formed in public opinion between new settlers and old-timers, the newcomer and local (indigenous) population. Based on empirical material from 2001-2017, this article examines the post-Soviet period of migration in industrial cities in the center of the region—Yakutsk, Mirny, Lensk, and Neriungri. Migrants include people from other parts of Russia, and from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The aim of the analysis was to identify the effect of respondents’ place of origin, date of arrival, and beginning of marital relations on their habitation in a household given their change of permanent residence.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1450552
G. Makarova
The multiplicity of ethnic and cultural identities of residents of large cities derives from a series of factors. Of particular significance is whether they come from a rural or urban locale, the focus of the article is interviews conducted with families of Kazan residents who self-identify as Tatars and Russians who have revealed substantive differences in the intensity and content of their associations with their “own” ethnic group. They vary in language practices, in knowledge and observance of traditional rites and holidays, and in how ethnic identities are manifest in cultural preferences and in mapping ethnic-cultural boundaries of the featured groups. At the same time, interview transcripts have revealed attitudes, values, and cultural preferences that appear shared by the majority of Kazan residents, both Russian and Tatar.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1450550
K. Grigorichev
The phenomenon of “Chinese greenhouses” in the suburban areas of large Siberian cities is discussed from the standpoint of actor-network theory. The author assesses the scale of the phenomenon based on the example of the Irkutsk suburbs, and analyzes its presence in the regional discourse. “Chinese greenhouses” are examined as a complex local social means through which suburban localities get integrated into translocal networks, and as a mechanism for the modernization of suburban areas.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1450553
D. Sokolov
The article describes transformations of the mountain village society of Karata, in the republic of Daghestan, in Russia’s North Caucasus. In the Soviet period organized into a collective farm from a kin-group oriented Islamic community, by the post-Soviet period its Andi-language people were split among the mountain village, the capital of Daghestan Makhachkala, flatland villages on the Daghestani plain, other cities of the Russian Federation, and the near and far abroad. This analysis focuses on changes in the social, religious, and political organization of Karata in the course of the three generations, from those born in the 1940s in the mountains to those born in the 1980s–90s who grew up in cities. This change of generations is accompanied by the replacement of a Karata identity with an Islamic one—for the younger generation of Karata people, the so-called second, urban generation, the global Islamic agenda, including jihad in Syria, is closer than the village concerns of Karata people born in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2017.1382289
K.V. Pimenova
The article is a study of concepts related to curses and evil spells in contemporary shamanism in Tuva. The author draws attention to the point that although curse, as a “diagnosis” pointing to the character of relationships between people, goes side by side with traditional ideas of supernatural substances or evil spirits in the culture of post-Soviet shamans, it still more often than not functions as the main or even sole explanation of diseases, depressions, energy losses, and other problems in human lives. Curse is understood by shamans as a material, even though invisible, energy or essence that has to be cast off to ensure a person’s recovery or to prevent possible trouble. Therefore, purifying rites of various kinds assume paramount importance in the activities of today’s shamans in Tuva. The complex of corresponding practices and concepts is analyzed in detail in the article.
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