Soul Hunters Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs

Name: Soul Hunters Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
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ISBN: 9780520252172

ISBN-10: 0520252179

ISBN-13: 9780520252172

Edition: 2007

Authors: Rane Willerslev

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Animism as Mimesis



To 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


Notes


References


Index