How Long to Read Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

How Long Does it Take to Read Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets by Assistant Professor Department of Religion Justine Buck Quijada

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of history lost its power and Buryats, like other Siberian indigenous peoples, were able to revive religious and cultural traditions that had been suppressed by the Soviet state. In the process, they also recovered knowledge about the past that the Soviet Union had silenced. Borrowing the analytic lens of the chronotope from Bakhtin, Quijada argues that rituals have chronotopes which situate people within time and space. As they revived rituals, Post-Soviet Buryats encountered new historical information and traditional ways of being in time that enabled them to re-imagine the Buryat past, and what it means to be Buryat. Through the temporal perspective of a reincarnating Buddhist monk, Dashi-Dorzho Etigelov, Buddhists come to see the Soviet period as a test on the path of dharma. Shamanic practitioners, in contrast, renegotiate their relationship to the past by speaking to their ancestors through the bodies of shamans. By comparing the versions of history that are produced in Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets offers a new lens for analyzing ritual, a new perspective on how an indigenous people grapples with a history of state repression, and an innovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know about the past.

How long is Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets?

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets by Assistant Professor Department of Religion Justine Buck Quijada is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets aloud.

What Reading Level is Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets?

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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