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animals
animals and persons
animism
anthropology
Author_Rane Willerslev
body and soul
body soul dialects
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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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520252172
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Rane Willerslev is Associate Professor in the Institute for Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is also the author of Hunting and Trapping in Siberia (2000).
