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Buryats

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Buryats

A Mongolian people living near Lake Baikal closely related to the Mongols and Kalmyks. Their religious beliefs combine Buddhism and Shamanism.



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Here the reader will be treated to a unique travelog that will take them from the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, to feast with native Siberian Buryats, the food markets and "high-rise villages" of Vladivostok and Irkutsk, Christmas celebrations, New Year's banquets, Easter dinners, and Siberian festivals.
This reviewer would have liked a stronger representation of Buryat and Inner Mongolian materials, not least because of the important, though often underrated and even berated, roles played by Buryats and Inner Mongols in Outer Mongolia.
Now a minority in their own region, the Buryats nevertheless contribute the predominant cultural influence in the Republic.
 
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