Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

Ludek Broz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-260-6 (ISBN)

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The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies from high-altitude burial sites. Less well-known is the fact that it hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims when confronted with state-fostered ‘rationalisms’ of science and governance.

Ludek Broz is Head of the Department of Ecological Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. He co-edited the volume Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-destruction, Personhood and Power (Routledge, 2016) with Daniel Muenster.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. Between Ancient Graves and Modern Rocket Junk

Chapter 2. How to Read a Letter

Chapter 3. Souls and Their Predators

Chapter 4. Property and (Non-)Human Personhood

Chapter 5. The Comparison Impossible

Chapter 6. Towards Strict Ontological Continuities

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-260-3 / 1805392603
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-260-6 / 9781805392606
Zustand	Neuware