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Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia
- 1.0582440 - EÚ 2024 RIV US eng B - Monography
Brož, Luděk
Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia.
New York: Berghahn, 2024. 240 s. ISBN 978-1-80539-260-6
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : Altai Republic * Negative externality * ontology
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BrozEvil
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.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350682
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