The movement for reconstructing identity through Shamanism: A case study of the Aga-Buryats in post-socialist Mongolia

Inner Asia

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-214

  Shimamura, Ippei ^a  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; POST-COMMUNISM; RELIGION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EASTERN PROVINCE [MONGOLIA]; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; WORLD;

EID: 12444280049     PISSN: 14648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/146481704793647144     Document Type: Article

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