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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
wiley   +1 more source

The common features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: the fate of the Mongolic *s

open access: yes, 2021
The aim of paper is to clarify whether the same process occurs or whether it is the result of independent development in these languages. This question is important because for a long time Khamnigan Mongol was considered a Buryat dialect and an ...
Khabtagaeva
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Ethnocultural Processes in Buryatia, 2010s: Issues of Buryat Language Preservation (A Study of Mass Media Materials).

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2021
Introduction. The article newly examines regional mass media materials of the 2010s for current problems of Buryat language preservation, the latter being an important element of Buryatia’s ethnocultural processes. The term ‘ethnocultural processes’ is
Sesegma G. Zhambalova
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐clausal scrambling and subject case in Balkar: On multiple specifiers and the locality of overt and covert movement

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.
Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
wiley   +1 more source

“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–65

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 548-572, October 2024.
Abstract The aim of this article is to bring the issue of peace more definitively into the increasingly complex vision we have of the postwar era and to give particular thought to the place of the military man within a society that was now supposedly orientated toward peace.
Claire E. McCallum
wiley   +1 more source

Radio propaganda in Process of Soviet Modernization of Society in 1930s in Buryatia

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2022
The features of the formation and development of wire broadcasting in the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the second half of the 1930s are analyzed. On the basis of previously introduced into scientific circulation and new archival documents, the authors prove ...
V. V. Nomogoeva, B. B. Shagdarova
doaj   +1 more source

“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.
Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
wiley   +1 more source

Sociocultural Design of the Sustainability of the Value Core of Buryat Culture Through the Implementation of Social Practices [PDF]

open access: yesГуманитарный вектор
This article presents the results of a study devoted to the peculiarities of sociocultural design of ethnocultural activities with the aim of preserving cultural heritage and updating traditional values in the Aginsky Buryat Okrug.
Elena S. Namzhilova
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehensive Impact of Changing Siberian Wildfire Severities on Air Quality, Climate, and Economy: MIROC5 Global Climate Model’s Sensitivity Assessments

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2024.
Abstract Wildfires emit atmospheric aerosols, affecting climate and air quality. Siberia is a known source region of wildfires. However, comprehensive knowledge regarding the impact associated with particulate matter pollution due to Siberian wildfires on climate and air quality and their effects on mortality and the economy under present and near ...
Teppei J. Yasunari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alterations in mindset of modern Buryats: the evidence from psychosemantic studies

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2017
The article examines the changes in the mindset of Buryats from the standpoint of the psychosemantic approach. This qualitative methodology is especially relevant for cross-cultural studies.
Tuyana Ts. Dugarova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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