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Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

 

Olga Shaglanova is Senior Lecturer at the Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, Russia. Her research interests span Siberian and Mongolian studies, archives and museum studies, legal anthropology, migration, and diaspora. Her current research focuses on questions of legality and illegality, particularly with respect to Chinese migration in Siberia.

 

 

 

 

Publications

Key publications: 

Books

 

Annotated Catalogue of Archival Materials on Buryat Shamanism of the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Japan, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology press, 2009, 332 pp. (in Russian). 

The Traditional Beliefs of Buryats of Tunka District, Ulan-Ude, Buryat Scientific Center Press: Nauka, 2007, 178 pp. (in Russian).

 

Book Chapters

 

“Urban Shamanism in the Post-Soviet Buryatia: Metaphors of Traditional Religion in the Urban Area,” in Urban and Rural Areas in Post-Soviet Buryatia: Social Anthropological Essays [Gorod I Selo v Postsovetskoi Buryatii: Sotsial’noAntropologicheskie Ocherki], Ulan-Ude: Buryat Scientific Center Press, 2009, pp. 142–64 (in Russian). 

“Space in the Traditional Culture of Mongolian Peoples,” Moscow: Orient Publishing House, Russian Academy of Science press, 2008, pp. 260–81 (in Russian). 

“Local Peculiarities of Shamanism Among Buryats of Tunka Valley,” in Religion in the History and Culture of Mongolian Peoples of Russia [Religiya v Istoriii Culture Mongol’skih Narodov Rossii]. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences press, 2008, pp. 88–105 (in Russian).

 

Edited Volume

 

The Cultural Heritage of Buryats, Evenks, Semeyskiye: Material and Religious Articles From the Collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples. O. Shaglanova and Shiro Sasaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan , 2015, 176 pp. (in Russian and English).

 

Papers (recent)

 

“The Evenk Shaman’s Tent,” in O. Shaglanova and Shiro Sasaki (eds), The Cultural Heritage of Buryats, Evenks, Semeyskiye: Material and Religious Articles From the Collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 2015, 119-124 pp. (in English). 

“Mongolian immigrant in modern Japan: motivation and adaptation”. Gumanitarnie issledovaniya Vnutrenei Azii, Vestnik Buryatskogo Universiteta, Ulan-Ude, 2013, Vol.1, pp. 76-86 (in Russian). 

“Buriat Urban Shamanism as Phenomen”. Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, Winter 2012-13/Vol.51, No.3, pp.76-88. M.E. Sharpe, Inc.(DOI: 10.2753/AAE1061-1959510305) (in English). 

“Mongolian migration to Japan. An ethnographic outline”, Transgranichnaya migratsiya v mongol’slom kul’turnom prostranstve: istoricheskiye i sovremenniye aspekti, Ulan-Ude, 2012, Vol. 2. pp. 149-177. (in Russian). 

“Chinese labour migrations in the context of a Buryat village”. Inner Asia, Cambridge. Vol. 13, Number 2. 2011, pp. 298 – 313 (in English). 

“The Dialogue between ‘Us’ and ‘Others’ in the Ethnographic Field,” Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie 1, Moscow, 2010, pp. 21–31 (in Russian).

 

Forthcoming Edited Volumes and Papers

 

“‘Borderlands Milieu’ Between Russia and Mongolia: A History of Settlement and Transnational Interaction,” in O. Shaglanova and Yuki Kongaya (eds), Northeast Asian Borders: History, Politics and Local Societies. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (in English, forthcoming, 2015). “The Evenk Shaman Attributes in the Collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples,” in O. Shaglanova and Shiro Sasaki (eds), Culture of the Peoples of Siberia and the Russian Far East in Museum Collections: Methods of Collection, Preservation and Exhibition.” National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (in Russian, forthcoming, 2015).

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