Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia by Broz, Ludek

Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781805392606)

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$135.00
$135.00
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Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia by Broz, Ludek

Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

$135.00
Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia by Broz, Ludek

Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

$135.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Ludek Broz
ISBN-10: 1805392603
ISBN-13: 9781805392606
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Ludek Broz
By Ludek Broz
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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.

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