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Autore |
Willerslev Rane <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Soul hunters : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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9786612772221 |
9781282772229 |
1282772228 |
9780520941007 |
0520941004 |
9781433708787 |
1433708787 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Yukaghir - Hunting - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Animism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Yukaghir - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Ethnology - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Siberia (Russia) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Animism as Mimesis -- 2. To Kill or Not to Kill: Rebirth, Sharing, and Risk -- 3. Body-Soul Dialectics: Human Rebirth Beliefs -- 4. Ideas of Species and Personhood -- 5. Animals as Persons -- 6. Shamanism -- 7. The Spirit World -- 8. Learning and Dreaming -- 9. Taking Animism Seriously -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. 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 |
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