Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02502024
Wandejia (Ban De Skyabs)
Ancestral genealogies convey significance not only for individual life experience but also for the collective memory of an ethnic group. Some Tibetans, who call themselves ‘Prommi’ in Muli and elsewhere in Sichuan, have an inherited text known as the ‘Funeral Genealogy’ relating to the Ldong paternal lineage within their group; it is written in archaic Tibetan and presents the historical memory and culture of the Prommi people. Through a discussion of the funerary text’s locale, oral and archaic writing characteristics, this paper explains the special understanding of the ‘Ldong’ clan ancestors of the Prommi people as well as their views, as found in the Bon religion, on the origin of things, the origin of life (with a ternary view of divinities, humans and demons), life after death, the concept of clans and the family’s historical memory of the father–son connection in the ancestral genealogy. This will provide new historical and cultural data for studying groups sometimes referred to as ‘ancient Qiang’.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02502023
Michelangelo Chini
The revival of shamanism in Southern Siberia is increasingly characterised by online forms of representation. Through digital ethnographic research conducted in Russian, this paper argues that the internet reproduces non-digital narratives and practices endowing them with global, immediate reach in a very widely recognisable form, thus contributing to the amplification, legitimisation and contestation of shamanic power. Analysing the websites of two Irkutsk-area ‘shamanic centres’, I consider how digitalisation is contributing to the process of institutionalisation of shamanism, reproducing and further legitimising post-socialist hierarchies and structures of power in Buryat shamanism, while highlighting the malleable nature of shamanic power and the web alike. Conversely, I recur to the Buryat concept of khel am (a form of ‘omnipresent witchcraft’) in relation to two recent news stories of national relevance in Russia involving Siberian shamans, to illustrate the challenge posed by the over-amplification of shamanic power through digitalisation to shamans and their institutions’ claims to power.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501005
Musapir
This article explores the alienating effects of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (ICH) (Ch.: fei wuzhi wenhua yichan 非物质文化遗产; Uy.: gheyri maddi medeniyet mirasliri) discourse on Uyghur villagers, particularly Uyghur knowledge-holders. Since China became a signatory to UNESCO’s ICH convention in 2004, the ICH framework has provided opportunities for people in China to protect and profit from their heritage. But it has also been used to further Chinese state nation-building in ways that do not meaningfully include the grassroots knowledge and holistic practices of Indigenous communities. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), top-down ICH policies have been implemented in tandem with increasingly repressive security policies and anti-extremism discourse. In this environment, authorised ICH discourse, which defines the nature, value and management of ICH, has marginalised and distanced Uyghur knowledge-holders from the heritage that they embody, contributing to the profound transformation of the Uyghur way of life.
本文探讨了非物质文化遗产的异化效应非物质文化遗产; 维语：gheyri maddi medeniyet mirasliri）关于维吾尔族村民，特别是维吾尔族知识持有者的论述。自2004年中国成为联合国教科文组织非物质文化遗产公约的签署国以来，非物质文化遗址框架为中国人民保护其遗产并从中获利提供了机会。但它也被用来推进中国的国家建设，而这些方式并没有真正包括土著社区的基层知识和整体实践。在新疆维吾尔自治区，自上而下的非物质文化遗产政策与日益压制的安全政策和反极端主义言论同时实施。在这种环境下，定义非物质文化遗产的性质、价值和管理的授权非物质文化遗址话语，使维吾尔族知识持有者与他们所代表的遗产边缘化和疏远，有助于维吾尔族生活方式的深刻转变。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501006
Tenha Seher
In official discourse in China, keywords highlight the main ideas in a text, point to specific regulations or policies then being implemented in a region, and often serve as mobilising slogans. They also carry implicit meanings and functions, and these affect people’s daily lives in different ways. This paper explores the meanings and impacts of the keyword ping’an jiating (平安家庭) – peaceful, safe household – when written on a plaque or label affixed to village homes in rural southern Xinjiang. It discusses ways in which those meanings differ for the residents of those homes and for the grassroots officials who assign the labels. It discusses how the ping’an jiating concept is related to stability maintenance, and how the award of a ping’an jiating label to a household can function as a form of political currency for that household, signalling that an awardee is trusted by local officials or, if political conditions change, the opposite.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501013
Abubakar Yangulbaev
The paper provides a discussion of various aspects of Chechen relation to the war in Ukraine, including oppositional voices as well as discourses and actions of those supporting the Russian position. The article compares and contrasts the war in Ukraine with the two wars Russia waged against Chechnya in 1994 and 1999. Commenting on the war in Ukraine, the author focuses on the phenomenon of the ‘Kadyrovites’ (Chechen auxiliary troops fighting on the Russian side) on the one hand and Chechen units fighting on the Ukrainian side on the other. It is argued that the silence of the international community in the Chechen war afforded Russia a sense of impunity, thus reinforcing its reckless military strategies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501015
T. Chudakova
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501003
Xiaoshi Wei
This essay examines the term duoyuan yiti, ‘pluralistic unity’, in cultural and artistic contexts in China and its use in everyday speech in the form of cultural metaphors. It briefly introduces the history of this term and provides examples of its use in political speech, academic writing and grassroots communication. The article also analyses discourses, phrases and ideas that have been constructed around duoyuan yiti, noting their profound impact on social life in China, particularly in its ‘minority’ regions. The article seeks to fill in the gap between, on the one hand, research into the term in Chinese in line with China’s official views and, on the other hand, policy-focused critical approaches in English-language academic writing. Through examining a cluster of derivative terms and slogans, I illustrate how, in public discourse, ‘diversity’ is performed and articulated as subsidiary to ‘unity’ in contemporary China.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501008
Guldana Salimjan
China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) designated the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a major up-and-coming tourist destination as part of a programme called ‘Ecological Civilisation’ (shengtai wenming 生态文明). As the crackdown on Turkic Muslims accelerated from 2017 onwards, more and more Uyghur villages and places from which Kazakhs and other pastoralist communities had been displaced in the name of ‘ecological migration’ were branded as locations for tourists to appreciate ‘nature’ and ‘folklore’. This essay analyses land expropriation and labour injustice at these ecotourism sites from the angle of colonial racial capitalism and shows that the expansion of ecological capitalism in China remains hinged on the production of brutal economic inequalities and cycles of vulnerability among racialised and minoritised bodies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1163/22105018-02501001
Uradyn E. Bulag
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