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Soul hunters : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs

Title
Soul hunters : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / Rane Willerslev.
Author
Willerslev, Rane, 1971-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
xvi, 229 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Subject
  • Yukaghir > Hunting > Siberia
  • Animism > Siberia
  • Yukaghir > Siberia > Folklore
  • Ethnology > Siberia
  • Siberia (Russia) > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780520252165 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520252160 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520252172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520252179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006035803
OCLC
  • OCM74941371
  • 74941371
  • SCSB-5353334
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries