The Human Being in Social and Cosmic Orders. Categories of Traditional Culture and the Problems of Contemporary Buryat Identity

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• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Note on transliteration
• Introduction
  • Theoretical considerations on the problem of social order
    • Questions and claims
    • Methodology of data collection
    • Guest researchers in Buryatia
    • Researcher at home and the Buryat social order
    • Summary
• 1. The cultures of knowledge in Buryatia
  • 1.1. The emergence of Asia and Siberia in European intellectual thought
    • 1.2. Producing colonial knowledge about Siberia
    • 1.3. Russian tradition of Oriental Studies
    • 1.4. Buryat epistemic culture
    • 1.5. Buryat attitude to the Western culture of knowledge
    • 1.6. Soviet replacement of the traditional culture of knowledge
    • Summary
• 2. The history of social structures and their conceptions
  • 2.1. The critique of the kinship society notion
    • 2.2. A brief historical introduction: Buryat clans and their leaders before and after incorporation into the Russian state
    • 2.3. The tribal vocabulary in selected Buryat sources
    • 2.4. Focusing on the fieldwork area
  • 2.4.1. Clan and tribes of Khori Buryats
  • 2.4.2. Soviet state and the traditional ideas of social order
  • 2.4.3. The uses of genealogies: Creating and contesting Buryat identity
    • Summary
• 3. The human being in the flow of the vital forces
  • 3.1. Kinship materialities
    • 3.2. The relatedness of vital forces
    • 3.3. The ideas of vital force
    • 3.4. The hierarchy of vitality: Some practices of maintaining the relatedness
    • 3.5. The order of vitality distribution
  • 3.5.1. Yosun the social order of vitality distribution
  • 3.5.2. The universal order and the universal bonds
  • 3.5.3. The individual engagement with the order
  • 3.5.4. The human agency in the orders
    • 3.6. The relation of individual and society
    • Summary
• 4. The social and cosmic orders
  • 4.1. The relation between the social sphere and the non-social environment
    • 4.2. Yosun as the order of a non-transcendental universe
    • 4.3. Heuristic context of understanding the order: Selected aspects of Buryat-Mongolian social thought
    • 4.4. The harmony of duality
    • 4.5. On the way to defining the social sphere
    • 4.6. Multiple orders of the universe
  • 4.6.1. Ritual and dogma versus order and method
  • 4.6.2. Yosun and the political order
    • Summary
• 5. The disturbed order: Categories of traditional culture and challenges of assimilative processes
  • 5.1. The Buryat order and the problem of its continuity
    • 5.2. The procedures of negotiating the yosun order
    • 5.3. Language in the order
    • 5.4. Inside and outside the order
    • 5.5. The loss of the order and the decline of vitality
    • 5.6. The restoration of vital forces reconsidering the minority position
    • 5.7. Problems of contemporary Buryat identity
    • Summary
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
  • Materials from Władysław Kotwiczs private archives deposited at the Archive of Science of PAN & PAU in Cracow
• Index of names
• List of illustrations
• Photographs

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