l l l l l Ayur Zhanaev • TheHuman Being • • in Social and Cosmic Orders • • Categories of Traditional Culture • • and the Problems • of Contemporary Buryat Identity •• •• :\.�"'E,RSYT,e1; --i' u .::, * t,, • • • - it � • • • • • • � • • • � � � *0 0!>is "'wuw •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Reviewer Łukasz Smyrski Commissioning Editor Ewa Wyszyńska Editing and Proofreading Ewa Balcerzyk Marta Radwańska Index Ewa Balcerzyk Cover Design Magdalena Jędraszko Layout and Typesetting Dariusz Górski Published with fi nancial support from the University of Warsaw Published with fi nancial support from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw © Copyright by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2019 Ayur Zhanaev ORCID 0000-0002-8976-8811 ISBN 978-83-235-4009-0 (print) ISBN 978-83-235-4017-5 (pdf online) ISBN 978-83-235-4025-0 (e-pub) ISBN 978-83-235-4033-5 (mobi) Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 00-497 Warszawa, ul. Nowy Świat 4 e-mail:
[email protected] Internet bookshop: www.wuw.pl 1st Edition, Warsaw 2019 Print and binding POZKAL Contents Acknowledgements . 9 Note on transliteration . 11 Introduction . 13 Theoretical considerations on the problem of social order . 15 Questions and claims . 21 Methodology of data collection . 23 Guest researchers in Buryatia . 24 Researcher “at home” and the Buryat social order . 29 Summary . 34 1. The cultures of knowledge in Buryatia . 36 1.1. The emergence of “Asia” and “Siberia” in European intellectual thought . 37 1.2. Producing colonial knowledge about Siberia . 43 1.3. Russian tradition of Oriental Studies . 46 1.4. Buryat epistemic culture . 49 1.5. Buryat attitude to the Western culture of knowledge . 54 1.6.