Issue #36 Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?

Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?

Rane Willerslev

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Issue #36
July 2012










Notes
1

See Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (London: John Murray, 1958, 1871)

2

See Graham Harvey, Animism: respecting the living world (London: Hurst & Co.; New York: Columbia UP; Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2005).

3

See Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, trans. K. E. Fields (New York: The Free Press, 1995, 1912).

4

See Philippe Descola, La nature domestique: symbolism et praxis dans l’écologie des Achuar (Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1986.)

5

See Nurit Bird-David, “The Giving Environment: Another Perspective on the Economic System of Hunter-Gatherers,” in Current Anthropology 31 (1990): 183–96.

6

See Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism,” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 4 (1998): 469–88.

7

See Tim Ingold, “Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals,” in The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (London: Routledge, 2000), 111–31.

8

See Morten A. Pedersen, “Totemism, Animism and North Asian Indigenous Ontologies,” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7.3 (2001): 411–27; Okruga (The Odul (Yukagirs) of the Kolyma Region) (Yakutsk, 1996, 1930.

9

See Aparecida Vilaça, “Chronically unstable bodies: reflections on Amazonian corporalities,” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 11 (2005): 445–64.

10

See Carlos Fausto, “Feasting on people: eating animals and humans in Amazonia,” in Current Anthropology 48.4 (2007): 497–530.

11

Rane Willerslev, Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).

12

See Rane Willerslev and Morten Axel Pedersen, “Proportional Holism: Joking the Cosmos into the right Shape in North Asia,” in Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, ed. Ton Otto and Nils Bubandt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010): 262–278.

13

Tim Ingold, “Hunting, Sacrifice and the Domestication of Animals,” in The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1986): 257.

14

See Lutmila N. Zukova, I. A. Nikolaeva, and L. N. Dëmina, Folklor Yukagirov Verhnei Kolymy (Folklore of the Verkhne Kolyma Yukaghirs) (Yakutsk, 1989), pts. 1–2. Also see Nicolai I. Spiridonov (Teki Odulok), Oduly (Yukagiry) Kolymskogo Okruga (The Odul (Yukagirs) of the Kolyma Region) (Yakutsk, 1996, 1930).

15

Rane Willerslev, On the Run in Siberia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 67.

16

Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989), 31.

17

Ibid., 29.

18

Nicholas Peterson, “Demand Sharing: Reciprocity and the Pressure for Generosity Among Foragers,” in American Anthropologist 95.4 (1993): 860–74.

19

Rane Willerslev, Soul Hunters, 39.

20

Nurit Bird-David, “The Giving Environment.”

21

Jonathan Z. Smith, Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

22

Rane Willerslev, Soul Hunters, 89–118.

23

Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1972), 195.