ISBN:
0520941004
,
9780520941007
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 229 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Soul hunters
DDC:
305.89/46
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Yukaghir Folklore
;
Yukaghir Hunting
;
Animism
;
Siberia (Russia) Social life and customs
Abstract:
Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a 'hall of mirrors' world, one inhabited by humans, animals and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another
Abstract:
Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a 'hall of mirrors' world, one inhabited by humans, animals and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another
Description / Table of Contents:
Animism as mimesisTo kill or not to kill: rebirth, sharing, and risk -- Body-soul dialectics: human rebirth beliefs -- Ideas of species and personhood -- Animals as persons -- Shamanism -- The spirit world -- Learning and dreaming -- Taking animism seriously.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520252165.001.0001
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