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Rane Willerslev

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Bachelors Anthropology University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Rane Willerslev is a Danish anthropologist. In his academic career, he has travelled extensively and has a particular interest in primitive tribal cultures, both present and prehistoric. On 1 July 2017, he was appointed director of the National Museum of Denmark by Culture Minister Mette Bock.

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Rane Willerslev's Published Works

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Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans (2011) (534)
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs (2007) (424)
A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture (2015) (329)
NOT ANIMAL, NOT NOT‐ANIMAL: HUNTING, IMITATION AND EMPATHETIC KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE SIBERIAN YUKAGHIRS (2004) (176)
Introduction: “Value as theory” (2013) (92)
'An anthropological concept of the concept': Reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghirs (2007) (84)
The Dark Side of Empathy: Mimesis, Deception, and the Magic of Alterity (2015) (70)
Comments on Carlos Fausto's Article "Feasting on People: Eating Animals and Humans in Amazonia" (2007) (66)
Frazer strikes back from the armchair: a new search for the animist soul* (2011) (56)
Sacrifice as the ideal hunt: a cosmological explanation for the origin of reindeer domestication (2015) (55)
Taking Animism Seriously, but Perhaps Not Too Seriously? (2013) (52)
The optimal sacrifice: A study of voluntary death among the Siberian Chukchi (2009) (48)
Can Film Show the Invisible? (2012) (42)
Transcendental Perspectivism: Anonymous Viewpoints from Inner Asia (2007) (42)
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love. 2009 meeting of GDAT (2011) (37)
“The Soul of the Soul Is the Body”: Rethinking the Concept of Soul through North Asian Ethnography (2012) (37)
To Have the World at a Distance: Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology (2007) (29)
Spirits as ‘ready to hand’ (2004) (25)
God on trial (2013) (25)
Taming time, timing death : social technologies and ritual (2013) (24)
Legacies of Historical Human Activities in Arctic Woody Plant Dynamics (2017) (22)
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (2011) (20)
Prologue: Value as theory (2013) (16)
Revisiting the animism versus totemism debate: Fabricating persons among Eveny and Chukchi of Northeastern Siberia (2012) (14)
Joking the Cosmos Into the Right Shape in North Asia (2010) (14)
When Good Luck Is Bad Fortune: Between Too Little and Too Much Hunting Success in Siberia (2012) (13)
Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation* (2018) (12)
The sable frontier: the Siberian fur trade as montage (2007) (9)
On the Run in Siberia (2012) (8)
5. Animals as Persons (2019) (7)
Into the Gloaming: A Montage of the Senses (2012) (7)
The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate: Is Reconciliation Possible? (2016) (7)
Cement, Graves, and Pillars in Land Disputes in Northern Uganda (2017) (6)
The Hunter as a Human kind - Hunting and Shamanism among the Upper Kolyma Yukaghirs (2001) (6)
Obstruction and Intervention as Creative Methods in Anthropological Research (2017) (5)
Understanding Hunger with Ik Elders and Turnbull's The Mountain People (2017) (5)
Special Section Introduction: Socioecological Disequilibrium in the Circumpolar North (2018) (5)
Defending the thesis on the ‘hunter's double bind’ (2015) (4)
Arctic Disequilibrium: Shifting Human-Environmental Systems (2018) (4)
“Half-Trust” and Enmity in Ikland, Northern Uganda (2015) (4)
“Urbanites without a City”: Three Generations of Siberian Yukaghir Women (2010) (4)
Regenerating Life in the Face of Predation: A Study of Mortuary Ritual as Sacrifice among the Siberian Chukchi (2016) (4)
“The One-All”: the animist high god (2013) (3)
A Soul by Any Other Name: The Name-Soul Concept in Circumpolar Perspective (2018) (3)
Human sacrifice and value (2019) (2)
Hunting animism: human–animal transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs (2013) (2)
Our Favorite Film Shocks (2020) (1)
Willerslev spiritual knowledge and dreaming Spirits as ‘ ready to hand ’ : A phenomenological analysis of Yukaghir (2004) (1)
Out of Range (2012) (1)
Who’s Afraid of the S-word? Deviants’ Burials and Human Sacrifice (2020) (1)
Montage in Museum Exhibition (2013) (0)
Special Section Introduction: Socioecological Disequilibrium in the Circumpolar North (2018) (0)
Ideas with Histories: Traditional Knowledge Evolves (2023) (0)
In the Yukaghirs’ Camp (2012) (0)
One Last, Feeble Attempt (2012) (0)
Body-Soul DialecticsHuman Rebirth Beliefs (2007) (0)
The Spirit World (2007) (0)
4. Ideas of Species and Personhood (2019) (0)
Hunters Transformed - Animals Seduced: Hunting and Spiritual Knowledge Among the Siberian Yukaghirs (2005) (0)
Disparate Ontologies? (2023) (0)
Title : Arctic Disequilibrium : Shifting Human-Environmental Systems (2019) (0)
9. Taking Animism Seriously (2019) (0)
land of shadows (2012) (0)
Kulturhistorisk museum skal ikke tømmes (2013) (0)
Culture & Society Cosmology , Politics , and Suicide in Siberia An Interview with Rane Willerslev (2016) (0)
A Post-Soviet Nightmare (2012) (0)
Faith in anthropology (2018) (0)
Introduction.: Mirrors of Passing (2018) (0)
Montage: Article for the International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology (2018) (0)
1. Animism as Mimesis (2019) (0)
Assembling the "Spark of Life" (2016) (0)
2. To Kill or Not to Kill: Rebirth, Sharing, and Risk (2019) (0)
A long-awaited friend (2012) (0)
“Saving the Dead”: (2018) (0)
Making sense of nonsense: Idle talk and Environmental Knowledge among the Siberian Yukaghirs (2007) (0)
Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Somet Societies. Ed. Mark D. Steinberg and Catherine Wanner. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii, 350 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $65.00, hard bound. $24.95, paper. (2010) (0)
"At leve med de dode: sorg, selvmord og reinkarnation blandt jukagirerne i Nordost Sibirien" (Living with the Dead: Grief, Suicide and Reincarnation among the Yukaghirs of North-eastern Siberia) (2005) (0)
Action and (re)valuation (0)
3. Body-Soul Dialectics: Human Rebirth Beliefs (2019) (0)
Starvation and Desperation (2012) (0)
Sable Furs for Sale (2012) (0)
Robert Paine: Camps of the Tundra (2009) (0)
To Kill or Not to KillRebirth, Sharing, and Risk (2007) (0)
Systematic comparison reveals totemism to be a second-order ontology: A critical assessment of Descola’s four-field ontological model (2020) (0)
8. Learning and Dreaming (2019) (0)
A Leap in Time (2012) (0)
The Way Back (2012) (0)
Cosmology, Politics, and Suicide in Siberia (2016) (0)
A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont by Marc Boglioli (2011) (0)
Shalugin, Leader of the Yukaghirs (2012) (0)

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