Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage Ritual, Performance, and Belonging in Buryat Communities of Siberia Consulting Camelia soon meets friends and

Camelia soon meets friends and enemies

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In this volume

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Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage Ritual, Performance, and Belonging in Buryat Communities of Siberia Consulting Camelia soon meets friends andIn the mid 2000s, the Russian government began to merge Siberia's smallest Indigenous territories into larger administrative regions. Among Buryat Mongols living to the west of Lake Baikal the state promoted a policy of "National Cultural Autonomy," which sought to separate culture from territory amid this consolidation of land and people. Although public performances of Buryat culture were mobilized to show support for the policy, Joseph Long's