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



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Autore: Willerslev Rane <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Soul hunters [[electronic resource] ] : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev Visualizza cluster
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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910457733303321
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