Sayana Namsaraeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 237400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayana Namsaraeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayana |
| FAMILY NAME | Namsaraeva |
| SIGNATURE | NAMSARAEVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4670-9448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on the North Korean side. Their use demonstrates how race and ethnicity became useful resources for Soviet p…
Forests and Rivers: A History of Environmental Governance in the Selenge Basin
Unlike other regions of the world that also experience anthropogenically generated environmental problems, Inner Asia is particularly vulnerable to ecological catastrophes. In such a context, scholars of the region - like social scientists elsewhere - extensively use ideas of periodisation to temporally situate analysis of human intervention in the natural world. This article also attends to the temporality of human intervention in Inner Asia's e…
Haunted by Ukrainian Ghosts: Three Stories of Ethnic-Military Relationships in Buryatia during the Russia-Ukraine War Crisis
This contribution is one of the first 'field-based' personal observations, when ethnographic research in the region is now almost impossible, especially for Western researchers. It sketches ethnographically local experiences of the war, describing a divided society in distress, which 'galvanises nostalgia' (Balzer 2021) for the past amid the grim reality around. The essay attempts to show in particular, what soldiers from Buryatia are experiencin…
О новом источнике «устной истории» бурят о паломничестве по Внутренней Азии в начале XX в
Introduction. Research on Buryat and Kalmyk pilgrimage to Buddhist worshiping sites in Tibet and wider in Inner Asia at the late imperial period mostly focuses on biographies and travel writings of Buddhist clergy, while experience of ordinary pilgrims ― especially of the lay people (Mong. khara khün) who were actors of this social phenomena ― received limited attention. However, some of the Buryat ‘oral histories’ about long distance travels to …
Rhythms of nutag: Slowness and Deceleration in Inner Asian Mobilities
While Henri Lefebvre used his rhythmanalysis for analysing urban spaces and the effects of those rhythms on the inhabitants of those spaces, I attempt to apply it to a more rural and non-European environment, the comparatively small and familiar space of a Mongolian nutag. Case studies based on oral and written Buryat and Barga Mongols' accounts demonstrate that entering the spiritually thick atmosphere of the nutag (crossing its borders) require…
Caught between states: Urjin Garmaev and the conflicting loyalties of trans-border Buryats
Following the personal history of one individual, this chapter aims to highlight the fears, hopes and considerations of trans-border Buryat–Mongols ‘caught between States’ during the ideological, political and territorial splits of the 1920–1940s in North Asia. Through discussion of the life of General Urjin Garmaev and his changing loyalties I show how investigating loyalty introduces a new framework for understanding the relationship between em…
Border Language: Chinese Pidgin Russian with a Mongolian ‘Accent
The conceptual framework of this paper is to view Mongolia as a 'contact zone' which geographically bridged the gap between two rapidly growing Eurasian empires-Russia and China. It allows a rethinking of the historical and social circumstances that led to the formation of Chinese Pidgin Russian (cpr)1 by highlighting the lexical and grammatical influence of the Mongolian language on contact languages in the China-Russia border area. In particula…
Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home
China, Russia and Mongolia share thousands of miles of border, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Presenting varied perspectives on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced and crossed, this book illuminates global uncertainties: China’s search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia’s fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious economic independenc…
Siberia in focus
The Metaphorical Use of Avuncular Terminology in Buriad Diaspora Relationships with Homeland and Host Society
The significance of the kinship relationship between the mother's brother and sister's son (avunculate) was one of the most discussed topics in the history of social anthropology. Two theories of pre-Schneiderian age - descent and alliance approaches - both consider avuncular relations as being tense and contradictive, associated with certain privileges of the maternal uncle and his senior hierarchical position in relation to Ego. This paper trie…
Rhythms of nutag: Slowness and Deceleration in Inner Asian Mobilities
While Henri Lefebvre used his rhythmanalysis for analysing urban spaces and the effects of those rhythms on the inhabitants of those spaces, I attempt to apply it to a more rural and non-European environment, the comparatively small and familiar space of a Mongolian nutag. Case studies based on oral and written Buryat and Barga Mongols' accounts demonstrate that entering the spiritually thick atmosphere of the nutag (crossing its borders) require…
Caught between states: Urjin Garmaev and the conflicting loyalties of trans-border Buryats
Following the personal history of one individual, this chapter aims to highlight the fears, hopes and considerations of trans-border Buryat–Mongols ‘caught between States’ during the ideological, political and territorial splits of the 1920–1940s in North Asia. Through discussion of the life of General Urjin Garmaev and his changing loyalties I show how investigating loyalty introduces a new framework for understanding the relationship between em…
Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on the North Korean side. Their use demonstrates how race and ethnicity became useful resources for Soviet p…
Border Language: Chinese Pidgin Russian with a Mongolian ‘Accent
The conceptual framework of this paper is to view Mongolia as a 'contact zone' which geographically bridged the gap between two rapidly growing Eurasian empires-Russia and China. It allows a rethinking of the historical and social circumstances that led to the formation of Chinese Pidgin Russian (cpr)1 by highlighting the lexical and grammatical influence of the Mongolian language on contact languages in the China-Russia border area. In particula…
The Metaphorical Use of Avuncular Terminology in Buriad Diaspora Relationships with Homeland and Host Society
The significance of the kinship relationship between the mother's brother and sister's son (avunculate) was one of the most discussed topics in the history of social anthropology. Two theories of pre-Schneiderian age - descent and alliance approaches - both consider avuncular relations as being tense and contradictive, associated with certain privileges of the maternal uncle and his senior hierarchical position in relation to Ego. This paper trie…
Siberia in focus
The Metaphorical Use of Avuncular Terminology in Buriad Diaspora Relationships with Homeland and Host Society
The significance of the kinship relationship between the mother's brother and sister's son (avunculate) was one of the most discussed topics in the history of social anthropology. Two theories of pre-Schneiderian age - descent and alliance approaches - both consider avuncular relations as being tense and contradictive, associated with certain privileges of the maternal uncle and his senior hierarchical position in relation to Ego. This paper trie…
Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home
China, Russia and Mongolia share thousands of miles of border, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Presenting varied perspectives on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced and crossed, this book illuminates global uncertainties: China’s search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia’s fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious economic independenc…
Border Language: Chinese Pidgin Russian with a Mongolian ‘Accent
The conceptual framework of this paper is to view Mongolia as a 'contact zone' which geographically bridged the gap between two rapidly growing Eurasian empires-Russia and China. It allows a rethinking of the historical and social circumstances that led to the formation of Chinese Pidgin Russian (cpr)1 by highlighting the lexical and grammatical influence of the Mongolian language on contact languages in the China-Russia border area. In particula…
Caught between states: Urjin Garmaev and the conflicting loyalties of trans-border Buryats
Following the personal history of one individual, this chapter aims to highlight the fears, hopes and considerations of trans-border Buryat–Mongols ‘caught between States’ during the ideological, political and territorial splits of the 1920–1940s in North Asia. Through discussion of the life of General Urjin Garmaev and his changing loyalties I show how investigating loyalty introduces a new framework for understanding the relationship between em…
О новом источнике «устной истории» бурят о паломничестве по Внутренней Азии в начале XX в
Introduction. Research on Buryat and Kalmyk pilgrimage to Buddhist worshiping sites in Tibet and wider in Inner Asia at the late imperial period mostly focuses on biographies and travel writings of Buddhist clergy, while experience of ordinary pilgrims ― especially of the lay people (Mong. khara khün) who were actors of this social phenomena ― received limited attention. However, some of the Buryat ‘oral histories’ about long distance travels to …
Rhythms of nutag: Slowness and Deceleration in Inner Asian Mobilities
While Henri Lefebvre used his rhythmanalysis for analysing urban spaces and the effects of those rhythms on the inhabitants of those spaces, I attempt to apply it to a more rural and non-European environment, the comparatively small and familiar space of a Mongolian nutag. Case studies based on oral and written Buryat and Barga Mongols' accounts demonstrate that entering the spiritually thick atmosphere of the nutag (crossing its borders) require…
Haunted by Ukrainian Ghosts: Three Stories of Ethnic-Military Relationships in Buryatia during the Russia-Ukraine War Crisis
This contribution is one of the first 'field-based' personal observations, when ethnographic research in the region is now almost impossible, especially for Western researchers. It sketches ethnographically local experiences of the war, describing a divided society in distress, which 'galvanises nostalgia' (Balzer 2021) for the past amid the grim reality around. The essay attempts to show in particular, what soldiers from Buryatia are experiencin…
Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on the North Korean side. Their use demonstrates how race and ethnicity became useful resources for Soviet p…
Forests and Rivers: A History of Environmental Governance in the Selenge Basin
Unlike other regions of the world that also experience anthropogenically generated environmental problems, Inner Asia is particularly vulnerable to ecological catastrophes. In such a context, scholars of the region - like social scientists elsewhere - extensively use ideas of periodisation to temporally situate analysis of human intervention in the natural world. This article also attends to the temporality of human intervention in Inner Asia's e…
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