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Second-to-fourth digit ratio and facial shape in Buryats of Southern Siberia
Background: The 2nd-to-4th digit ratio (2D:4D) is a putative predictor of a prenatal exposure to sex hormones. 2D:4D is sexually dimorphic (males < females).
Rostovtseva Victoria V.
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‘Shiv Khori’ – A Case of An Antecedents Destination Planning Management
Pilgrimage Tourism must have potential locations and customer centers, which could be developed for tourism activities and one such place is “Shiv Khori”.
Mangoch, Sourav
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Alterations in mindset of modern Buryats: the evidence from psychosemantic studies
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.
Yuri N. Filippovich +3 more
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Like all the peoples of Siberia, the Buryats were involved in the process of Christianization aiming to complete the spiritual unification of Russia’s multinational population in the 19th century.
Bair Z. Nanzatov
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On the Social Background of the Modern Revival of Shamanism (Evidence from the Buryats of China)
The revival of shamanism in Russia, including shamanism practiced by the Buryats who reside in the eastern part of the country, has recently been drawing increasing attention from both domestic and foreign scholars.
M. S. Mikhalev
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Life on the borderland: Buryats in Russia, Mongolia and China
This article discusses the relations and some of the mutual Buryat-attitudes of three countries, namely Russia, Mongolia and China. The mass migrations which took place in the first half of the twentieth century divided state borders and the way these ...
Nowicka, Ewa, Zhanaev, Ayur
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Building empire among the Buryats: conversion encounters in Russia's Baikal region, 1860s - 1917 [PDF]
This dissertation argues that encounters between Russian Orthodox missionaries and the Buryats with whom they worked in Russia’s Siberian Baikal region between the 1860s and 1917 epistemologically emplaced the Buryats within the empire and caused ...
Murray, Jesse
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The article is based on fieldwork conducted in Southern Siberia among Buryat and Evenki people in 2006. By comparing the strategies of risk management persons with articulated biographies (Buryat shaman and Evenki businessman) use, we investigated the ...
Safonova, Tatiana +5 more
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Transformation of Barguzin Buryats’ traditional values in late XX – early XXI centuries
Article analyzes the process of transformation in traditional values of Barguzin Buryats in late 20th – early 21st centuries.
Viktoria V. Lygdenova
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This paper focuses on the Aga–Buryats of Dornod province, a Mongol minority group in post-socialist Mongolia, and examines the role shamanism played in reconstructing their ethnic identity throughout their cultural revival movement.
Ippei Shimamura
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