The Personalities of the Tory Steppe
https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2016-23-1-135-145
Abstract
The article is devoted to the people, who in early 1990-s rendered an invaluable help, not only with their knowledge as informants but also with their human emotional attitude to the members of an academic expedition who came from Moscow to study their village Tory (Tunka district of the Republic of Buriatia). That study was a part of an interdisciplinary and an international joint project under the title “A Portrait of an Oriental Village”. Five villages in different regions of the Russian Federation (Dagestan, Buryatia, Bashkortostan Republic), as well as of the former USSR, the Crimea (then part of Ukraine) and Kyrgyzstan were selected for the expedition. The author of the article became a member of the Buryat part of the project, led by the head of the department of general problems of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS - S. Panarin. A group of scientists was selected for the expedition in Tory village which lasted four years (1992-1995). However, the article is devoted not to the results of the work but to the people who rendered an invaluable help to the expedition participants. Four of the selected from a large number of the volunteered assistants belonged to different strata of the rural society. Among them there were a fortune-teller, a shaman, a nurse and a director of a boarding school. Each of them intrigued the author at that time, first of all, as a distinct personality with his/her peculiar inner world, each one was instrumental for understanding the processes occurring in the Buriat village in the post-perestroika time. Three of them have already died without any official obituaries written for them. So, the article is devoted to their memory.
About the Author
N. Zhukovskaya
N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Zhukovskaya N. The Personalities of the Tory Steppe. Oriental Studies. 2016;9(1):135-145. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2016-23-1-135-145
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