Rane Willerslev

Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a 'hall of mirrors' world, one inhabited by humans, animals and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another.

Hunting, Animism, and Personhood Among the Siberian Yukaghirs

Soul Hunters

Coilin Ohaiseadha

Recounts the Danish anthropologist's year living in exile in Siberia among Yukaghir hunters after fleeing from the police, who were set to arrest him because of his efforts to organize a fair-trade fur cooperative with the hunters.

On the Run in Siberia

Vi befinder os i en ulykkelig og langvarig kreativitetskrise, som vi må se at komme ud af. De egenskaber, der skal til for at omsætte kreativitet til en kraftfuld katalysator for en sund og dynamisk samfundsudvikling, bliver hverken efterspurgt eller belønnet. Vi har udviklet et nulfejlsregimente og har mistet modet til at fejle produktivt. Det er endnu ikke for sent. Men det er på høje tid, at vi TÆNKER VILDT!

Det er guddommeligt at fejle

Tænk vildt

Helle Broberg Nielsen

et oplæg til et mere modigt dannelsesbegreb

Rygrad og rummelighed

Mit Magiske Træ

Tommy Heisz

Fra tundraen til savannen

Ekspeditioner

Svend Brinkmann

Tor Nørretranders

Frederik Lindhardt

Vi er på vej ind i en ny tidsalder. Radikalt ny. Det synes at være den generelle stemning for tiden. Det er, som om vi står midt i en overgang mellem noget, der var, og noget, der kommer. Den analoge verden bliver, som tiden går, et stykke historie, mens den digitale tidsalder emmer af fremtid – en fremtid ingen kender, men alle kæmper for at få lov at definere. Og ligesom med andre store overgange – nye jobs, runde fødselsdage og festlige bryllupper – er det oplagt også at markere denne overgang ved at sætte nogle ord på. I stedet for at rejse sig og tale, så foregår det her siddende og i samtale. Tre af Danmarks skarpeste og mest populære iagttagere, Tor Nørretranders, Rane Willerslev og Svend Brinkmann, gør sammen status over den på mange måder radikale tid, vi lever i. Hvad er det for en tid? Hvad kommer vi fra? Hvad går vi til? Og hvordan med os mennesker? Med mennesket, med menneske(lig)heden?

Det, du ikke forstår, gør dig klogere

Sophie Seebach

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

Mirrors of Passing

En dramatisk og lettere vanvittig historie fra det iskolde Sibirien. For at gøre en ende på århundreders udnyttelse af de sibiriske zobeljægere iværksatte antropolog Rane Willerslev et idealistisk pelsprojekt. Men det gik hurtigt skævt, da han kom på tværs af den russiske mafia og måtte flygte ud i den nådesløse tajga, hvor jagten er et spørgsmål om liv eller død.

Zobeljagt, russisk mafia og 65 minusgrader

På flugt i Sibirien

Et oplæg til et mere modigt dannelsesbegreb

Linda Corfitz Jensen

Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande

Danmark før os

Christian Suhr

The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors—anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators—explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very “combustion chamber” of social theory by juxtaposing one’s claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.

Transcultural Montage

Dorthe Refslund Christensen

Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is with death and our encounters with it, that form the basis of human conceptions of time. Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead, thus informing and manifesting humans' understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social theory, human geography and religion.

Social Technologies and Ritual

Taming Time, Timing Death

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