What is it about?
This chapter explores the development of ethnicity and nationalism among Indigenous people of the Mountain Altai amid the fragmentation and collapse of the Russian Empire and the eventual ascent of the political religion of Bolshevism. Geographically, the Mountain Altai is an area in southwestern Siberia, which is located at the intersections of the present-day Russian, Mongolian, and Chinese borders.
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Why is it important?
it is an interesting case of how local local cultures and ethnic groups in imperial borderlands selectively use popular folklore and history to seek secession in situations when empires collapse
Perspectives
I use a comparative cross cultural analysis of to explore how Tibetan Buddhism and shared folklore were used in Altai (Siberia) and neighboring Mongolia to amplify ethnic self-awareness and gain autonomy in the first case from Russia and in the second case from China.
Professor Andrei Znamenski
University of Memphis
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This page is a summary of: The making of Altaian nationalism, March 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780429354663-37.
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