Spirits as ‘ready to hand’

The Upper Kolyma Yukaghirs, a small group of indigenous hunters in north-eastern Siberia, rarely give names to spirits and have no neatly ordered system of classification. I develop an argument that relates this to the nature of Yukaghir experience, going beyond the academically widespread view of k...

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Published in:Anthropological Theory
Main Author: Willerslev, Rane
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2004
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499604047918
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