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Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?
Rane Willerslev
In social anthropology, we have seen a development away from studies of the so-called old animism, in the traditional sense of E. B. Tylor, 1 toward what Graham Harvey has referred to as “the new animism.” 2 Central to the approaches of new animism researchers is a rejection of previous scholarly attempts to identify animism as either metaphoric—a projection of human society onto nature as in the sociological tradition of Emile Durkheim 3 —or as some sort of imaginary delusion, a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Anthropology & Ethnography, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Animism, Animals, Humor & Comedy, Rituals & Celebrations