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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Please join
us for the following talk:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>“Exchanging History for Sheep: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Proliferation of Shamanic Practices in the<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Aftermath of the Collapse of <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Socialism in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'>Manduhai
Buyandelgeriyn, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'>TODAY!
Wednesday, January 24 @ 11:30 am<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><font size=5 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'>MIT</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=5 color=navy><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font size=5
color=navy><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'> 16, Room 220<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This talk is about the responses of
marginalized ethnic Buryats of Mongolia to the collapse of socialism through
the revival of their previously suppressed shamanic practices. The shamanic
resurgence began as a means for dealing with sudden impoverishment during <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
transition from socialism to a market economy in 1990s. Yet it quickly turned
into a quest for establishing the authenticity of the knowledge that is
necessary for alleviating the misfortunes. The lack of written genealogies
containing the names of shamanic spirits and the disruption of a tradition of
passing down such knowledge within families makes the recovery a highly complex
endeavor. A persistent anxiety about the loss of the past and suspicions about
the knowledge that has been recovered become some of the catalysts for the
proliferation of shamanism.<br>
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As the Buryats sponsor their public shamanic rituals, they weave together
dispersed histories out of the stories of the spirits they encounter in ritual
arena. Because this history is not created by states and empires, but by the
Buryats who crossed borders and regimes, it has absorbed various features of
nationalism, ethnicity, and colonialism, without being restricted by them.
Enfolded in shamanic spirits -- disembodied mobile memorials – and dispersed
in the vast terrain of southern Siberia and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region>,
this history destabilizes the taken-for-granted geographical boundaries between
Asia and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. On an individual level, the
Buryats’ encounters with their spirits from the past, open up the
possibility for acquiring additional identities besides their current national
belonging to Mongolia. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Amberly
Steward<br>
Administrative Assistant</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Anthropology
Program</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">77 Massachusetts Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
Bldg. 16-267<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02139</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
p) 617.253.3065<br>
f) 617.253.5363 </span></font><font color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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