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