Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines 46 | 2015 Études bouriates, suivi de Tibetica miscellanea Édition électronique URL : https://journals.openedition.org/emscat/2484 DOI : 10.4000/emscat.2484 ISSN : 2101-0013 Éditeur Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études Référence électronique Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015, « Études bouriates, suivi de Tibetica miscellanea » [En ligne], mis en ligne le 10 septembre 2015, consulté le 13 juillet 2021. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/emscat/2484 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.2484 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 13 juillet 2021. © Tous droits réservés 1 SOMMAIRE Études bouriates Introduction Nikolay Tsyrempilov On the people of Khariad (Qariyad) Tsongol B. Natsagdorj Diseases and their origins in the traditional worldview of Buryats : folk medicine methods Marina Sodnompilova et Vsevolod Bashkuev An outpost of socialism in the Buddhist Orient: geopolitical and eugenic implications of medical and anthropological research on Buryat-Mongols in the 1920s Vsevolod Bashkuev ‘Remote’ areas and minoritized spatial orders at the Russia – Mongolia border Caroline Humphrey Daily life and party ideals on late Soviet-Era radio and television : programming for children, teens, and youth in Buryatia Melissa Chakars Performing “culture” : diverse audiences at the International Shaman’s Conference and Tailgan on Ol’khon Island Justine Buck Quijada et Eric Stephen Tibetica miscellanea On the Tibetan Ge-sar epic in the late 18th century : Sum-pa mkhan-po’s letters to the 6th Paṇ-chen Lama Solomon George FitzHerbert rNgon-pa’i ’don… : A few thoughts on the preliminary section of a-lce lha-mo performances in Central Tibet Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy « Mystères » bouddhiques. La théâtralisation des rituels tibétains par les voyageurs au début du XXe siècle Samuel Thévoz La terminologie de parenté au Ladakh (Leh) Patrick Kaplanian An archaeological survey of the Nubra Region (Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India) Quentin Devers, Laurianne Bruneau et Martin Vernier Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015 2 Comptes rendus Goldstein M.C., A History of Modern Tibet volume 3 : the storm clouds descend 1955-57 Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-520-27651-2 Matthew Akester Yeh Emily T., Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 2013, 324 pages, paperback. ISBN 9780801478321 Katia Buffetrille Sihlé Nicolas, Rituels bouddhiques de pouvoir et de violence : la figure du tantriste tibétain Turnhout, Belgique, Brepols, 2013, 405 p., ISBN : 978-2-503-54470-0 Cécile Ducher Bellezza John Vincent, Death and Beyond in Ancient Tibet. Archaic Concepts and Practices in a Thousand-Year-Old Illuminated Funerary Manuscript and Old Tibetan Funerary Documents of Gathang Bumpa and Dunhuang Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Nr. 77, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften, 454. Band, Vienna (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften), 2013. ix + 293 p., ISBN 978-3-7001-7433-2 Per Kværne Buffetrille Katia (ed.), Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World Leiden, Brill, 2012, vii-386 p., ISBN 978 90 04 23217 4 Nicolas Sihlé Lang Maria-Katharina, Bauer Stefan (eds.), The Mongolian Collections. Retracing Hans Leder Vienne (Autriche), Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2013. ISBN : 978-3-7001-7520-9 Isabelle Charleux Batsaihan Oohnoin, Mongolyn süülčiin ezen haan VIII Bogd Žavzandamba. Am’dral ba domog (The Last Emperor of Mongolia Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu. The Life and Legend) Ulaanbaatar : Admon, 2011, xx+707 p. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 978-99929-0-464-X Isabelle Charleux et Laura Nikolov Pesteil Philippe, Bianquis Isabelle (eds.), Déprise et emprise du rural. Regards croisés sur les dynamiques sociales Stamperia Sammarcelli, Università di Corsica, Corte, 2013, 198 p. ISBN 9782915371802 Charlotte Marchina Bulgakova Tatiana, Nanai Shamanic Culture in Indigenous Discourse Fürstenberg/Havel, Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2013, 261 p. ISBN 978-3-942883-14-6 Aurore Dumont et Alexandra Lavrillier Kasten Erich (dir.), Reisen an den Rand des Russischen Reiches : die wissenschaftliche Erschliessung der nordpazifischen Küstengebiete im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert Fürstenberg/Havel, Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, coll. « Exhibitions and Symposia », 2013, 318p. ISBN 978-3-942883-16-0 Jan Borm Erdal Marcel, Nevskaya Irina, Nugteren Hans, Rind-Pawlowski Monika (Hg.), Handbuch des Tschalkantürkischen Teil 1 : Texte und Glossar, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2013. xii, 252 S (Turcologica, Bd. 91,1), ISBN 978-3-447-06964-9 Dmitri Funk, Oksana Poustogacheva et Irina Popravko Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015 3 Léotar Frédéric, La steppe musicienne : Analyses et modélisation du patrimoine musical turcique Paris, Vrin, 2014, 303 p. ISBN 978-2711625505 Rémy Dor Note de recherche The past in the way of the present : Ruminations on Pema Tseden’s movie Old Dog Roberto Vitali Résumés de thèse Éric Mélac, L’évidentialité en anglais : approche contrastive à partir d’un corpus anglais- tibétain Aurore Dumont, Échanges marchands, réseaux relationnels et nomadisme contemporain chez les Evenk de Chine (Mongolie-Intérieure) Aurélie Biard, État, religion et société en Asie centrale post-soviétique. Usages du religieux, pratiques sociales et légitimités politiques au Kirghizstan Marie-Paule Hille, Le Xidaotang, une existence collective à l’épreuve du politique. Ethnographie historique et anthropologique d’une communauté musulmane chinoise (Gansu, 1857-2014) Hommage Philippe Sagant, la passion de l’ethnologie Katia Buffetrille et Marie Lecomte-Tilouine Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015 4 Études bouriates Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015 5 Introduction Nikolay Tsyrempilov EDITOR'S NOTE Editors’ note : Terms in Buryat have been transliterated according to official Buryat spellings provided by dictionaries. Present-day scholarship on the Buryats, or Buryat-Mongols, consciously or otherwise considers the people in question and the areas they inhabit as a marginal part or periphery of the Mongolian or Russian worlds ; the logic of this marginality is determined by the history of this ethno-cultural group formation at the civilizational juncture between Asia and Europe, and furthermore acquires its historical and cultural identity from this marginality. Indeed, most of the few Western Buryatologists approach their area specialization from one of two dominant perspectives. The majority of them initially had, and still have, an established basic interest in Russian studies or, to be precise, studies in Russian Siberia.1 In this perspective the Buryats are viewed as the largest indigenous people of Siberia, culturally and historically one of the most curious minorities of Asiatic Russia. The second perspective runs through Mongolian (rarely Tibetan) studies, but even here the Buryats are seen only as a part (albeit an important one) of the larger Mongolian or Tibetan Buddhist worlds.2 It turns out that the Buryats are still being studied as a fragment of a larger picture, be it Mongolia, Russia, Tibetan Buddhism, Siberian Shamanism, and so forth. However, this academic marginality should not necessarily be regarded as a flaw. One of the positive aspects is that Buryat studies attract a circle of researchers with specialization in various regions and disciplines, and Buryatology thus becomes a highly contextualized sphere. In many cases this contextualization may generate a multidimensional picture. It is no less important to keep in mind that the Buryats are a classic case of an autoethnographic people, and it was in the middle of the 19th century that early Buryat chroniclers first attempted to describe their own people by imitating modern European Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46 | 2015 6 ethnographic accounts.3 However, it was in the early 20th century that the school of Buryatology started to take shape thanks to the outstanding efforts of the first ethnographers and historians of Buryat origin. In early Soviet times this school, based in Buryatia, included many famous names, such as Bazar Baradiin, Tsyben Zhamtsarano, Gombozhap Tsybikov, and Mikhail Bogdanov. Almost all these brilliant scholars were purged in the 1930s.4 Due to the post-WWII political configuration (especially the deterioration in USSR-PRC relations during the 1950s),5 Buryat studies have drifted away from Mongolian studies. The Buryats began to be viewed as a group with weak links with the larger Mongolian world, whose ‘real history’ starts with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Postcolonial discourse becomes dominant but exclusively in the Marxist interpretation of historical materialism. Buryatology in the USSR evolved separately from the rest of the world, and this is still true for Buryat studies of Buryatia. This special issue of EMSCAT represents a resolute step towards overcoming this protracted isolation. Today, apart from the school of Buryatology of Ulan-Ude which is now based in the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, Department of History and Culture of Buryatia of Buryat State University, Buryat Academy of Mongolia, there are no other established and systematic centres of Buryat studies in other parts