“Spirit-Charged” Humans in Siberia: Interrelations between the Notions of the Individual (“Spirit Charge” and “Active Imprint”) and (Ritual) Action

• Published in: Arctic Anthropology
• Main Author: Lavrillier, Alexandra
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Evenki; Arctic; Arctic Anthropology; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03145157; https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.57.1.72

International audience This paper shows how a society imagines human individuals and their power to act upon spirits both ritually and materially. Based on the author’s fieldwork (from 1994 to 2019), it analyzes the emic concept onnir, which is omnipresent in the daily activities and the past and pr...