To the Problem of Ethnic Identity of Modern Buryats
He article discusses the etymology of the term “Buryat” and the issue of ethnic identity of the modern dispersed settled Buryats of Russia, Mongolia and China, the findings of which are based on the materials of several complex expeditions of 2002-2012. The relevance of the research is determined by the increasing dominance in the social history of the countries and peoples of ethnic diversification and by the desire to identify the presence of tools and mechanisms that support sustainable ethnicity and identity within the Buryat world. As the mobilization of ethnicity and ethnic factors of Buryat world the degree of usage of Buryat language was analyzed, as well as the preservation of elements of material and spiritual culture, the idea of genetic common origin, existing opposition “we - they”. It is established that the deepening globalization processes have opened the new opportunities for the preservation of ethnic identity and solving the common urgent problems for Buryats from different countries