Posts tagged Memory
Commentary: Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger

Through Buyandelger’s extensive and dedicated fieldwork, we are allowed to glimpse into how one tribe of Mongolians— the Buryats— are recollecting their personal and communal histories after centuries of suppression and persecution, not only as the marginalized tribe within Mongolia, but also under Soviet domination and Russian aggression dating back to Catherine the Great.

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