Date of Award
4-20-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Jennifer Patico - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Emanuela Guano - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Kathryn Kozaitis - Committee Member
Abstract
This study explores postsocialist representations of modernity and identity through narratives of social change collected from individuals in rural communities of Buryatia, Russia. I begin with an examination of local conceptualizations of the past, present, and future and how they are imagined in places and spaces. Drawing on 65 days of fieldwork, in-depth interviews, informal discussion, and participant-observation, I elaborate on what I am calling a confrontation with physical triggers of self in connection to place, including imaginations of the countryside and village, sacred and ritual spaces, landscapes, and the environment. I also explore how the anxieties embedded in narratives of change are connected to aspiration for the future and nostalgia for the past.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1331455
Recommended Citation
Ortiz-Echevarria, Luis, "Narratives of Social Change in Rural Buryatia, Russia." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1331455