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Author Willerslev, Rane, 1971-

Title Soul hunters : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / Rane Willerslev.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Yukaghir -- Hunting -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Yukaghir.
Hunting.
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Animism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Animism.
Yukaghir -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Folklore.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Subject Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Ethnology.
Siberia (Russia) -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Animismus -- Jagd -- Jukagiren.
Jagd -- Animismus -- Jukagiren.
Jukagiren.
Jakutien -- Ethnologie.
Jagd -- Animismus -- Russland -- Jukagiren.
Jukagiren -- Jagd -- Animismus.
Jukagiren.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Soul hunters Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520252165 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006035803
ISBN 9780520941007 ebook
0520941004
9780520252165 cloth alkaline paper
0520252160 cloth alkaline paper
9780520252172 paperback alkaline paper
0520252179 paperback alkaline paper
1429494603 (electronic book)
1433708787
9781429494601 (electronic book)
9781433708787

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