Community, faith and politics. The ovoos of the Shinehen Buryats throughout the 20th century

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Community, faith and politics. The ovoos of the Shinehen Buryats throughout the 20 th century Communauté, croyance et politique. Les ovoo des Bouriates de Shinehen au XX e siècle Aurore Dumont Community, faith and politics. The ovoos of the Shinehen Buryats throughout t... Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 52 | 2021 Community, faith and politics. The ovoos of the Shinehen Buryats throughout t... Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 52 | 2021

The Double Identities of the Shaman and the Dualistic Attitudes of the State: An Exploration of Contemporary Organizational Shamanism in Northeast China

“…After a crippling decline when they were strictly forbidden during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and the 1970s, shamanistic practices have been greatly revitalized in the last four decades among Tungusic and Mongolian groups, as well as Han Chinese groups, in Northeast China (Qu 2021(Qu , 2023. When scholars have examined the "traditional" elements of Mongolian and Tungusic shamanism (Dumont 2021(Dumont , 2023Guo 2008Guo , 2009Heyne 1999Heyne , 2009Hoppál 2005;Humphrey and Onon 1996;Kara et al 2009;Noll and Shi 2009;Qu 2021;Sa 2023), the "new" or "neo" elements of contemporary shamanistic practices in Northeast China have been excluded from the research field. Comparing Russian and Chinese shamanism among transborder indigenous groups, Maxim Mikhalev argues that shamanism on the Russian side is characterized by organizational associations, while shamanism on the Chinese side is characterized by individual shamans who are not organized (Mikhalev 2023).…”