Soul Suckers: Vampiric Shamans in Northern Kamchatka, Russia
This paper proceeds from the assumption that the spiritual beliefs of native people of northern Kamchatka (Koryaks, Chukchis, Evens) are not false consciousness, nor "really" about something else. I situate beliefs about vampiric shamans in the larger cultural context of the spiritual worl...
| Published in: | Anthropology of Consciousness |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1999
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ac.1999.10.4.57 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fac.1999.10.4.57 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ac.1999.10.4.57 |
| Summary: | This paper proceeds from the assumption that the spiritual beliefs of native people of northern Kamchatka (Koryaks, Chukchis, Evens) are not false consciousness, nor "really" about something else. I situate beliefs about vampiric shamans in the larger cultural context of the spiritual world, the human soul, and the afterlife. After this description of d iscourse about shamans, the second half of the paper demonstrates how the way people talk about the spiritual world is interconnected with their social reality. |
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