Corpora & dataLive
kibaraki/Shinekhen-Buryat (Hugging Face)
The only identified open dataset for the Shenehen dialect (1,250 lines, September 2025)—addresses a gap that the main landscape report noted as entirely absent regarding Buryat dialects.
Revitalisation, memory and the transnational Buryat world
Since 1989
Contemporary history includes religious and language revitalisation, renewed genealogies, museums and media. Mongolia and Shenehen are equal parts of a connected Buryat world.
Verified evidence
This period does not yet carry a source-verified claim. Sources: see the historical collection
Sources & materials
21 catalog entriesPeriod tags: Post-Soviet period · Diaspora
History sourcesLive
Kontroversen um die Nationalitätenpolitik der Republik Burjatien [Controversies regarding the nationality policy of the Republic of Buryatia] (BIOst, 1997)
A rare full-text German analysis of the national policy of the post-Soviet Republic of Buryatia.
History sourcesLive
Kremlin.ru — decree on the merger of the Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug
An official legal anchor for fact-checking the merger of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug with the Irkutsk Oblast (dissolution of okrugs 2006–2008).
History sourcesLive
WIPO Lex — constitutional norm on the liquidation of the Agin Buryat Okrug
Official legal text recording the termination of the existence of the Agin Buryat Autonomous Okrug as of 1 March 2008 — an anchor for fact-checking the administrative reform.
ResearchLive
Ippei Shimamura — "The Roots Seekers: Shamanism and Ethnicity among the Mongol Buryats" (Shumpusha Publishing, 2014)
Japanese anthropology of shamanism and ethnic revival among the Mongol Buryats — a bridge to Japanese Buryat studies.
ResearchLive
Justine Buck Quijada — "Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia" (Oxford University Press, 2019)
An investigation into competing genres of history and ritual memory in post-Soviet Buryatia — interpreting history as lived and performed, rather than merely archival chronology.
ResearchLive
Kathryn E. Graber — "Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Language, media, and negotiations of belonging within divided Buryat territories — useful for the topic of the consequences of the 1937 territorial fragmentation and differences in regional identities.
ResearchLive
Manduhai Buyandelger — "Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia" (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
An ethnography of the shamanic revival of the Buryats of Mongolia—an important correction to narratives focused solely on the Republic of Buryatia.
ResearchLive
Nowicka & Zhanaev — «Po obu stronach Ononu... Buriaci» (2020) [On both sides of the Onon... Buryats]
Contemporary Polish anthropology of the Buryats of Transbaikalia and Mongolia on both sides of the Onon River.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
Ao Chahalun — “Regional Characteristics of Barga Buryat Folklore” (sinoss.net)
A full-text Chinese article on the regional characteristics of Bargu-Buryat folklore.
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Bökh wrestling among the Shenehen Buryats (fcipub.org)
An article on Bökh wrestling among the Shenehen Buryats as intangible cultural heritage.
Mongolia & East AsiaPartial access
CNKI — «Hulunbuir Buryat-Mongol cultural change»
An article regarding the cultural change of the Hulunbuir Buryat-Mongols in the Chinese academic database CNKI.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
HUSCAP — «Personal possessive particles in Shenehen-Buryat» (2011)
A grammatical article on the possessive particles of the Shenehen-Buryat language, Hokkaido University repository.
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HUSCAP — Shenehen-Buryat text «the liar...» (2025)
A recent (2025) publication of a field recording of a Shenehen-Buryat text — the most recent academic source found for the language.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
Menghe Wuliji — “Nomadic Culture of the Barga Buryats” (sinoss.net)
A full-text Chinese article from Inner Mongolia University regarding the nomadic culture of the Bargu-Buryats — a unique layer of information not overlapping with the Russian/English-language field.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
Shenehen Buryat Ethnocultural Centre (Dogoy village, Transbaikalia)
An offline centre for Shenehen Buryat culture in Transbaikalia, serving a community originating in China (~7,000 people) — the only organisational point identified for this topic amid the near-total absence of live digital resources on the Shenehen Buryats or the Buryats of Mongolia (~45,000).
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
Shimamura Ippei — profile on researchmap
Anthropologist and shamanologist Shimamura Ippei; dissertation on the ethnicity and shamanism of Mongol-Buryats.
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TUFS Repo — PDF jaas-supp002all (full text of the 『環北太平洋の言語』 [Languages of the Circum-Pacific] series)
Full text of the «Languages of the Circum-Baikal and Pacific Coast» series, containing field materials on Shenehen-Buryat.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
TUFS Today — interview about Shenehen Buryats
A popular interview with Prof. Yamakoshi regarding the life, cuisine, and language of the Shenehen Buryats — an accessible entry point for non-specialists.
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モンゴル諸語テキスト資料集成 [Collection of Texts of Mongolic Languages] (TUFS, texts + audio)
A database of Shenehen Buryat field texts with audio and glosses — the only active scholarly audio corpus of Shenehen Buryat identified in the research.
Mongolia & East AsiaPartial access
中国民俗学网 [China Folklore Network] — field diary of the Xinhe expedition (2024)
A field diary from a 2024 folklore expedition to the Shenehen region — recent ethnographic material.