Professional affiliation: Center for Mongolian Studies Inner Mongolia University West Daxue Road 235 010021 Hohhot, P.R. China Phone: +86 150 48354855

List of publications:

Articles:

2019 Shamanic Sports: Buryat Wrestling, Archery, and Horse Racing. Religions 10/5 (https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/5).

2018 Reflecting Realities and Beliefs – Buryat Archery as a Mirror of Social Change. In: Aksenov, M. O./Krist S. (eds.) Стратегии и практики развития национальных видов спорта: опыт поколений и новые технологии: материалы международного научного симпозиума (1–3 июля 2015 г., Улан- Удэ, Россия, Республика Бурятия) (Strategies and Practices in Developing Traditional Sports: Past Experiences and Current Trends: Proceedings of the international scientific symposium (1–3 July 2015, Ulan-Ude, Russia, Buryat Republic)). Ulan-Ude: Buryat State University Publishing Department: 21– 33.

2017, together with Csaba Mészáros, Vsevolod Bashkuev, Luboš Bělka, Zsófia Hacsek, Zoltán Nagy, István Sántha, and Ildikó Sz. Kristóf: Ethnographic Accounts of Visitors from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to the Asian Peripheries of Russia and Their Contribution to the Development of Systematic Ethnological Studies in the Monarchy: Preliminary Results and Research Perspectives. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 62/2 (2017): 465–498.

2017 Магия борьбы: национальная борьба в Бурятии и Монголии в прошлом и настоящем (Wrestling Magic: National Wrestling in Buryatia and Mongolia in the Past and Today). Вестник Бурятского научного центра Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук (Bulletin of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1 (2017): 10–22.

2014 Wrestling Magic: National Wrestling in Buryatia, Mongolia and Tuva in the Past and Today. The International Journal of the History of Sport 31, 4 (2014): 423–44.

2009, together with Margit Wolfsberger: Identität, Heimat, Zugehörigkeit, Remigration (Identity, Home, Belonging, Remigration). In: Six-Hohenbalken, M./Tošić, J. (eds.): Anthropologie der Migration: Theoretische Grundlagen und interdisziplinäre Aspekte (Anthropology of Migration: Theoretical Foundations and Interdisciplinary Aspects). Wien: Facultas: 164–84.

2009 Kickboxing, Breakdance and Pop Music versus Wrestling, Round Dance and Folk Music? Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, Vol. 41 (2009): 131–42.

2007 От кочевников к мигрантам: пересмотр бурятской истории (From Nomads to Migrants: Reassessing Buryat History). In: Диаспоры в современном мире: материалы

международного круглого стола. г. Улан-Удэ, 15 октября 2007г. (Diasporas in the Modern World: Materials of the Round Table, Ulan-Ude, 15. October 2007). Ulan-Ude: Издательство Бурятского госуниверситета: 109–20.

2007 From Nomads to Migrants: Reassessing Buryat History. Réseau Asie – IMASIE, September 26-28, 2007, Paris. Online: http://www.reseau-asie.com/cgi- bin/prog/gateway.cgi?langue=fr&password=&email=&dir=myfile_colloque&type=jhg54gfd98gfd4fgd 4gfdg&id=416&telecharge_now=1&file=a32_krist_stefan.pdf .

2006 A burját “surxarbaan” ünnep története és jelentsége (History and Significance of the Buryat Holiday

„Surkharban“). In: Birtalan, Á. (ed.): Mongol játékok és versenyek (Mongolian Games and Competitions ). Budapest: Akademiai kiado: 17–23.

2006, together with Alena Kabunova: О бурятском спортивном празднике Сурхарбаан как сюжете изобразительного искусства (About the Buryat Sport Holiday Surkharban as a Subject of Pictorial Arts). In: Буряты в контексте современных этнокультурных и этносоциальных процессов.

Традиционная культура, народное искусство и национальные виды спорта бурят в условиях полиэтничности (The Buryats in the context of current ethno-cultural and ethno-social processes. Traditional culture, folk art and national sports under the circumstances of multiethnicity), vol. 1. Ulan- Ude: Издательско-полиграфический комплекс ФГОУ ВПО ВСГАКИ: 381–94.

2006 Die burjatischen Schmiede (Buryat Blacksmiths). Online: http://www.ybbsitz.at/wDeutsch/Schmiedezentrum/Ring_und_Schmiedestaedte/burjate_1.shtml?navid= 86 .

2006 Есть ли буряты в Австралии? (Are there Buryats in Australia?). Спорт Тамир (Sport Tamir, [Buryatia’s weekly sports magazine]),March 25, 2006: 4.

2004 Where going back is a step forward: the re-traditionalising of sport games in post-Soviet Buryatiia.

Sibirica – Journal of Siberian Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (April 2004): 104–15.

2003, together with Maria-Katharina Lang: Surharban Depicted: An Analytical Double View. In: Sárközi, A./Rákos, A. (eds.) Altaica Budapestinensia MMII – Proceedings of the 45th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) Budapest, Hungary, June 23-28. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 199–210.

Book reviews:

2018 Eichberg, Henning (†): Questioning play – What play can tell us about social life. London: Routledge, 2016; Hamayon, Roberte: Why we play – An anthropological study. Hau Books: Chicago, 2016.

Anthropos Nr. 113/1, 2018: 296–98.

2010 Chuluunbaatar, Otgonbayar: Einführung in die mongolischen Schriften (Introduction into the Mongolian Scripts). Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2008. Anthropos Nr. 105/2, 2010: 618–19 (in English).

2008 Musch, Tilman: Nomadismus und Sesshaftigkeit bei den Burjaten: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Folklore (Nomadism and Sedentarism among the Buryats: Social Change in the Mirror of Contemporary Folk Literature). Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien: Peter Lang 2006;

Musch, Tilman (ed.):

Буряад дуун (Buryat Songs). CD #3 in the series “Treasures of Mongolian Culture and Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism”. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Inner Asian Studies, 2008. Anthropos Nr. 103/2, 2008: 610–12 (in German).

2007 Birtalan, Ágnes: Die Mythologie der Mongolischen Volksreligion (The Mythology of the Mongolian Folk Religion). In: Schmalzriedt, E./Haussig, H. W. (Hg.) Wörterbuch der Mythologie, I. Abteilung: Die alten Kulturvölker, Band VII: Götter und Mythen in Zentralasien und Nordeurasien. Stuttgart, Zweiter Teil, S. 877-1097. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2004. Anthropos Nr. 102/2, 2007: 603–4 (in German).

Edited books:

2018, together with Maksim O. Aksenov: Стратегии и практики развития национальных видов спорта: опыт поколений и новые технологии: материалы международного научного симпозиума (1–3 июля 2015 г., Улан-Удэ, Россия, Республика Бурятия)[Strategies and Practices in Developing Traditional Sports: Past Experiences and Current Trends: Proceedings of the international scientific symposium (1–3 July 2015, Ulan-Ude, Russia, Buryat Republic)]. Ulan-Ude: Izdatel’stvo Buryatskogo Gosuniversiteta.

2011, together with Andrea Strasser-Camagni: Johanna Stigler. Verwandtschaft, Kultur, Religion: Beiträge zur Sozialanthropologie Georgiens (Johanna Stigler. Kinship, Culture, Religion: Contributions to the Social Anthropology of Georgia). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2009, together with Patricia Brooks and Günther Vallaster: Das literarische Sprachlabor. Workshop- Konzepte für den Deutsch-Unterricht (The Literary Language Laboratory. Workshop Concepts for German Language Teaching). Wien: Praesens.

Areas of research interests:

• general themes:

expressive culture (sports, art, literature, music), processes of social change, history, migration processes, religions, languages;

• geographic regions:

Siberia, Mongolia, Northern China, the Caucasus, Eastern and Central Europe;

• wrestling related:

traditional wrestling in Siberia (Russia), Mongolia, China, and the Alps (Austria, Switzerland).

Brief biography:

Stefan Krist (⁕1964, Austrian citizenship) is assistant professor at the Center for Mongolian Studies of the Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, capital of the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia, China.

He has studied biology, history, social anthropology, and Mongolian studies and holds a PhD degree in anthropology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has been working as a research associate at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and as lecturer at the University of Vienna and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

He has been doing socio-cultural anthropological as well as historical research focusing regionally on Siberia, Mongolia and Northern China, especially working among and about the Buryats, Tuvinians, and Russian Old Believers, among groups of whom he has been carrying out series of long-term field researches. Thematically, he has been focusing on these groups’ expressive culture – primarily sports and visual arts – as well as on their religious practices and migration movements. His main interest lies in the analysis of social and cultural changes.

He has published the results of his research in numerous articles in international journals and in edited books. He also published book reviews and has co-edited books. He is member of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), the Arctic and Subarctic Working Group (AAS) and of the anthropology advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the editorial board of the Russian State Duma’s scientific journal “Kul’tura fizicheskaya i zdorov’e (Physical Culture and Health”.