Elza-Bair Guchinova
Biographic Data
| ID | 903916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elza-Bair Guchinova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elza-Bair |
| FAMILY NAME | Guchinova |
| SIGNATURE | GUCHINOVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalmyk Institute for Humanities Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9901-0131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can subalterns sing? Kalmyk songs about their exile to Siberia
The article deals with Kalmyk folk songs about the deportation of the Kalmyk people to Siberia (1943–1957). The purpose is to exhibit the Siberian cycle of Kalmyk songs as a special genre, to elucidate its folklore specifics and to show how its pragmatics have changed depending on the political context during the last 80 years. The study is based on a corpus of 80 texts in the Kalmyk language. The songs were collected among folk song performers i…
The memory of the deportation of kalmyks of “generation 1.5”
The memory of the deportation of the Kalmyks as a traumatic event is not homogeneous. Women and men, expelled as teenagers or adults, or Kalmyk children born as “spetspereselency”, had different experiences of eviction and survival and remember these years in different ways. The oral stories I have collected show the memory of the community through personal narratives, revealing variety of personal strategies and resistance. In this publication, …
“I Had a Nice Siberia”
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To Build a Buddhist Temple
The aim of this fieldwork-based paper is to show the path to the businessman’s faith in the modern historical, social, and confessional context, as well as the language in which it is articulated. The decision to build a Buddhist temple “turnkey” to replace the one destroyed in the 1930s, in his home town leads to spiritual transformation. Buddhist teachers, who have unconditional authority, change the outlook and behaviour of the benefactor. The…
Visible and Invisible Ethnicity
This article is devoted to an important period, as yet insufficiently studied by anthropologists and sociologists, in the history of Kalmykia – the deportation of the Kalmyks to Siberia (1943–1956) and its cultural implications. Its aim is to show how the stigmatization of the exiled Kalmyks in an unfavorable social and political environment influenced their linguistic and religious behavior. These issues are part of the process of creating a Sov…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Performing the deportation of Kalmyks
How Kalmyks talk about deportation
Repressed Vainakhs in the Social Memory of Deported Kalmyks
The article is devoted to problems regarding the perception of representatives of repressed Chechens in the social memory of repressed Kalmyks and its pragmatics, which have not been posed earlier in Russian anthropology. The sources used are field materials collected by the author, as well as published memories of the deportation of the Kalmyks and materials posted on Facebook by the Chechen group “We Remember. Deportation and return”. Results: …
The Politics of History in Russia and Theatricalisation of Traumatic Events
This article examines how historical representation of the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia has changed in compliance with the politics of history in Russia. It traces the shift from silence on this topic under communism to the dramatisation of it in the 1990s when the communists lost their power, and finally to the softening of this event in the last decades when state ideology under Putin's administration is striving to unite the peoples of Ru…
Pilgrimage as a Path to Faith
Ethnic Identity as Stigma
The article is devoted to the study of the ethnic identification of the Kalmyks during the deportation of 1943–1956. These thirteen years in Siberia represented a special historical context during which the Kalmyk ethnic group was completely outlawed and its ethnic identity problematized. The purpose of the article is to show how the Kalmyk ethnicity was stigmatized under the pressure of a large society, how the Kalmyk ethnicity disappeared from …
Everyone has their own Siberia
Awaiting the Chakravarti-Tsar
On the occasion of Putin's re-election last month, we have asked some of the leading academic experts on Russia to provide a short comment focusing on an issue of their choice related to the agenda and challenges for Putin
Black Sun and Ring-Fenced Space
The article is devoted to the art of two outstanding artists – Sergey Paradzhanov (USSR) and Kazuki Yasuo (Japan). Sregey Paradjanov was convicted and spent five years in camps, Yasuo Kazuki found himself in a Soviet camp for prisoners of war. The humiliating experience of the imprisonment of artists was reflected in their works, which did not cease behind barbed wire. But both artists are united by the theme of human freedom in unfree conditions…
Everyone’s Got His Own Siberia’
The publication consists of a transcription of a biographical interview of the celebrated Kalmyk historian and Oiratologist - Vladimir Petrovich Sanchirov (1947-2019), supplemented with the author’s commentaries. The interview took place in Elista in 2004 as part of the research project ‘Everyone’s Got His Own Siberia’ dealing with the crucial but understudied period of Kalmyk history - the nation’s Siberian deportation of 1943-1956 and memories …
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
Men and Women in Contemporary Kalmykia
Kalmyk social life has been transformed over the 20th century, and this article documents changes specifically in the sexual division of labour and gender relations. Previous social norms (which differed from widely-held suppositions aboutmale dominance in all spheres of life)were drastically altered by the Soviet regime, changing work patterns and living conditions for both sexes. The article focuses mainly on Post-Socialist transformations, whi…
The Republic of Kalmykia
The hydrographic network of the Republic of Kalmykia, developed in the western part of the republic, is broadly represented by the watercourses of the eastern slope of the Yergenei and small rivers; the eastern part of the republic does not have a river network. The principal water sources of the rivers are snow melt-waters. The regime of the rivers and watercourses of the eastern slope was characterized in 1995 by spring floods of short duration…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Everyone has their own Siberia
The Republic of Kalmykia
The hydrographic network of the Republic of Kalmykia, developed in the western part of the republic, is broadly represented by the watercourses of the eastern slope of the Yergenei and small rivers; the eastern part of the republic does not have a river network. The principal water sources of the rivers are snow melt-waters. The regime of the rivers and watercourses of the eastern slope was characterized in 1995 by spring floods of short duration…
Men and Women in Contemporary Kalmykia
Kalmyk social life has been transformed over the 20th century, and this article documents changes specifically in the sexual division of labour and gender relations. Previous social norms (which differed from widely-held suppositions aboutmale dominance in all spheres of life)were drastically altered by the Soviet regime, changing work patterns and living conditions for both sexes. The article focuses mainly on Post-Socialist transformations, whi…
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
Black Sun and Ring-Fenced Space
The article is devoted to the art of two outstanding artists – Sergey Paradzhanov (USSR) and Kazuki Yasuo (Japan). Sregey Paradjanov was convicted and spent five years in camps, Yasuo Kazuki found himself in a Soviet camp for prisoners of war. The humiliating experience of the imprisonment of artists was reflected in their works, which did not cease behind barbed wire. But both artists are united by the theme of human freedom in unfree conditions…
Everyone’s Got His Own Siberia’
The publication consists of a transcription of a biographical interview of the celebrated Kalmyk historian and Oiratologist - Vladimir Petrovich Sanchirov (1947-2019), supplemented with the author’s commentaries. The interview took place in Elista in 2004 as part of the research project ‘Everyone’s Got His Own Siberia’ dealing with the crucial but understudied period of Kalmyk history - the nation’s Siberian deportation of 1943-1956 and memories …
Pilgrimage as a Path to Faith
Ethnic Identity as Stigma
The article is devoted to the study of the ethnic identification of the Kalmyks during the deportation of 1943–1956. These thirteen years in Siberia represented a special historical context during which the Kalmyk ethnic group was completely outlawed and its ethnic identity problematized. The purpose of the article is to show how the Kalmyk ethnicity was stigmatized under the pressure of a large society, how the Kalmyk ethnicity disappeared from …
Everyone has their own Siberia
Awaiting the Chakravarti-Tsar
On the occasion of Putin's re-election last month, we have asked some of the leading academic experts on Russia to provide a short comment focusing on an issue of their choice related to the agenda and challenges for Putin
Performing the deportation of Kalmyks
How Kalmyks talk about deportation
Repressed Vainakhs in the Social Memory of Deported Kalmyks
The article is devoted to problems regarding the perception of representatives of repressed Chechens in the social memory of repressed Kalmyks and its pragmatics, which have not been posed earlier in Russian anthropology. The sources used are field materials collected by the author, as well as published memories of the deportation of the Kalmyks and materials posted on Facebook by the Chechen group “We Remember. Deportation and return”. Results: …
The Politics of History in Russia and Theatricalisation of Traumatic Events
This article examines how historical representation of the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia has changed in compliance with the politics of history in Russia. It traces the shift from silence on this topic under communism to the dramatisation of it in the 1990s when the communists lost their power, and finally to the softening of this event in the last decades when state ideology under Putin's administration is striving to unite the peoples of Ru…
“I Had a Nice Siberia”
.
To Build a Buddhist Temple
The aim of this fieldwork-based paper is to show the path to the businessman’s faith in the modern historical, social, and confessional context, as well as the language in which it is articulated. The decision to build a Buddhist temple “turnkey” to replace the one destroyed in the 1930s, in his home town leads to spiritual transformation. Buddhist teachers, who have unconditional authority, change the outlook and behaviour of the benefactor. The…
Visible and Invisible Ethnicity
This article is devoted to an important period, as yet insufficiently studied by anthropologists and sociologists, in the history of Kalmykia – the deportation of the Kalmyks to Siberia (1943–1956) and its cultural implications. Its aim is to show how the stigmatization of the exiled Kalmyks in an unfavorable social and political environment influenced their linguistic and religious behavior. These issues are part of the process of creating a Sov…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
The memory of the deportation of kalmyks of “generation 1.5”
The memory of the deportation of the Kalmyks as a traumatic event is not homogeneous. Women and men, expelled as teenagers or adults, or Kalmyk children born as “spetspereselency”, had different experiences of eviction and survival and remember these years in different ways. The oral stories I have collected show the memory of the community through personal narratives, revealing variety of personal strategies and resistance. In this publication, …
Can subalterns sing? Kalmyk songs about their exile to Siberia
The article deals with Kalmyk folk songs about the deportation of the Kalmyk people to Siberia (1943–1957). The purpose is to exhibit the Siberian cycle of Kalmyk songs as a special genre, to elucidate its folklore specifics and to show how its pragmatics have changed depending on the political context during the last 80 years. The study is based on a corpus of 80 texts in the Kalmyk language. The songs were collected among folk song performers i…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Deportation (8 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Soviet and Russian History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Politics (6 works)