Editor's Introduction

Q3 Arts and Humanities
M. Balzer
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During the cultural revivals of the late Soviet period and the 1990s in many of the ethnic republics of Russia, art and museum exhibit openings, theater premières, and book presentations were happening nearly every week. For me, traveling frequently to Sakha Republic (Yakutia), it was as if some cork had been popped on a champagne bottle, unleashing a pent-up creativity that had deep sources in local cultures. The cultural intelligentsias of Kalmykia, Buryatia, and the Altai and Sakha Republics, featured here, were encouraged by the conditions of the 1990s and by each other to explore many cultural paths, including new globalizing inspirations from Europe and Asia. Yet many of them simultaneously looked to folklore and their artistic roots. Social patterns became remarkably similar in the ways artists in these communities were and are valorized for their national themes. While republic leaders were busy choosing national flags, and arguing over national constitutions—within the Russian Federation—their artists were exploring epics and other spiritual resources. I have chosen two Mongol and two Turkic republics to illustrate the little-known and underappreciated artistic flourishing of the post-Soviet period and its legacies. This is partly because these are places I know, where specific artists have become brilliant synthesizers of their cultural traditions. They are also places where local art historians and anthropologists have been producing reflective work about their creative artist-culture-heroes. This issue merely samples their work:
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在苏联后期和20世纪90年代俄罗斯许多少数民族共和国的文化复兴时期,艺术和博物馆展览开幕、戏剧首演和图书推介几乎每周都有。对我来说,经常去萨哈共和国(雅库特)旅行,就好像打开了香槟瓶上的软木塞,释放了深藏在当地文化中的压抑的创造力。卡尔梅克共和国、布里亚特共和国、阿尔泰共和国和萨哈共和国的文化知识分子在20世纪90年代的条件和彼此的鼓励下,探索了许多文化道路,包括来自欧洲和亚洲的新的全球化灵感。然而,他们中的许多人同时关注民间传说及其艺术根源。社会模式变得非常相似,在这些社区的艺术家的方式和他们的国家主题的价值。在俄罗斯联邦内部,当共和国领导人忙于选择国旗和争论国家宪法时,他们的艺术家们正在探索史诗和其他精神资源。我选择了两个蒙古共和国和两个突厥共和国来说明后苏联时期鲜为人知、未得到充分重视的艺术繁荣及其遗产。这部分是因为我知道这些地方,在那里,特定的艺术家已经成为他们文化传统的杰出合成器。这些地方也是当地艺术史学家和人类学家对他们富有创造力的艺术家-文化-英雄进行反思的地方。本期杂志只是对他们的作品进行了抽样:
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期刊介绍: Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia presents scholarship from Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, the vast region that stretches from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from Lake Baikal to the Bering Strait. Each thematic issue, with a substantive introduction to the topic by the editor, features expertly translated and annotated manuscripts, articles, and book excerpts reporting fieldwork from every part of the region and theoretical studies on topics of special interest.
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