Soul hunters [[electronic resource] ] : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev

• Autore: Willerslev Rane <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89/46
• Soggetto topico: Yukaghir - Hunting - Russia (Federation) - Siberia; Animism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia; Yukaghir - Russia (Federation) - Siberia; Ethnology - Russia (Federation) - Siberia
• Soggetto geografico: Siberia (Russia) Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: animals and persons; animals; animism; anthropology; body and soul; body soul dialects; ethnography; hall of mirrors world; human rebirth beliefs; humans; hunters; hunting life; identity; indigenous peoples; insightful; mimesis; native peoples; northeastern siberia; personhood; perspectivism; phenomenology; rebirth; reincarnation; religion and spirituality; shaman; shamanism; siberia; siberian studies; souls; species; spirit world; spirits; spiritual; upper kolyma; yukaghirs
• Classificazione: LC 30326
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another. In this world human beings inhabit a betwixt-and-between state in which their souls are both substance and nonsubstance, both body and soul, both their own individual selves and reincarnated others. Hunters are thus both human and the animals they imitate, which forces them to steer a complicated course between the ability to transcend difference and the necessity of maintaining identity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Soul hunters
• ISBN: 1-282-77222-8; 9786612772221; 0-520-94100-4; 1-4337-0878-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784419403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II