Rane Willerslev

Research output

Research output per year 1992 2007 2012 2013 2016 2017 2018 2021 2024

• 58 Journal article
• 47 Book chapter
• 18 Book
• 10 Contribution to newspaper - Comment/debate
• 41 More
  • 10 Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
  • 6 Sound/Visual production (digital)
  • 4 Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
  • 3 Anthology
  • 3 Report chapter
  • 3 Conference abstract for conference
  • 3 Comment/debate
  • 3 Literature review
  • 2 Encyclopedia chapter
  • 1 Report
  • 1 Article in proceedings
  • 1 Preface/postscript
  • 1 Review

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Comedic Comparisons: Absurd Juxtapositions and the Value of Digressive Truths

  Nielsen, M. & Willerslev, R., 2024, Digressions and the Power of Imagination: Tracing the Indirectness of Human Creativity. Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction:

  Walsh , M., Moen, M., O’Neill, S., Gullbekk, S. H. & Willerslev, R., 2024, In the Darkest of Days: Exploring Human Scrifice & alue in Southern Scandinavian Prehistory. Walsh, M. J., O'Neil, S. & Sørensen, L. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. i-xxxiii 33 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
• 2021

  Danmark i en stor lille verden

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 296-297 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Demokratiet spirer

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Kbh.: People's, p. 258-259 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Det kræver mod at møde verden åbent

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Kbh.: People's, p. 186-187 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Det tænkende og det planlæggende menneske

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Kbh.: People's, p. 36-37 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Fællesskabets fortælling

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 66-67 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Hverdagsmagi og globalisering

  Willerslev, R., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 220-221 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Hvor fortiden og nutiden mødes

  Byriel-Thygesen, M., Pedersen, C. S., Mannering, U., Andersen, M., Sørensen, L., Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 28 Nov 2021, Danmark før os : Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 299-318 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Idéen om et efterliv

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 96-97 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Systemets stærke kræfter

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 156-157 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Tingene de efterlod

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 6-7 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Vikingetiden er nutidens spejl

  Willerslev, R. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 126-127 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• 2020

  Vi skriver historien i nutid på fremtidens Nationalmuseum

  Willerslev, R., 2020, Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark 1940-2020. Madsen, P. K., Rath, I. Z., Wass, I., Andersen, M., Pedersen, C. S., Rasmussen, P. & Sørensen, L. (eds.). Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, p. 231-245 15 p. (Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• 2019

  Opråb!

  Willerslev, R., 2019, HACK DET!: Projekthåndbogen til unge kulturskabere. Smidt, J. M., Mygind, S. S. & Vinter, T. (eds.). Aarhus: Frontløberne, p. 262-265 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• 2018

  Efterord

  Willerslev, R. & Tolkien, J. R. R., 2018, Hobbitten eller ud og hjem igen. København: Gyldendal, p. 325-330 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Foreword: The Anthropology of Ontology meets the Writing Culture Debate— is Reconciliation Possible?

  Willerslev, R., 2018, Animism beyond the Soul: Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge. Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. vii-xii 6 p. (Social Analysis).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction

  Willerslev, R. & Seebach, S. H., 2018, Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time. Willerslev, R. & Seebach, S. H. (eds.). Berghahn Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Montage

  Willerslev, R., 2018, International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology: Anthropology Beyond Text. Callan, H. (ed.). New York: Wiley-Blackwell

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Not Animal Not Not-Animal: Hunting, Imitation and Empathetic Knowledge among the Siberian Yukaghirs

  Willerslev, R., 2018, Human-Animal Studies. McHugh, S. & Marvin, G. (eds.). Routledge, Vol. IV: Northern. p. 53-79 24 p. (Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Saving the Dead: Fighting for Life in the Siberian North

  Willerslev, R. & Lykkegård, J., 2018, Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality and Time. Willerslev, R. & Seeback, S. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 107-122

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 'The Missing Link': exhibit still missing!

  Willerslev, R., 2018, Department of Voids. Clement, B. & de la Cour, S. (eds.). Berlin & København: Kerber Verlag, p. 49 1 p. (Kerber art).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• 2017

  Lachen Über die Geister in Nordsibirien: Wird der Animismus Ernst genommen?

  Willerslev, R., 2017, Nach Dem Animismus. Albers, I. & Franke, A. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, p. 227-337 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The Optimal Sacrifice: The Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi

  Willerslev, R., 2017, Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader. Robben, A. C. G. M. (ed.). (2nd edition) ed. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 115-128 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2016

  Assembling the "Spark of Life"

  Willerslev, R., 2016, Materialities of Passing: Explorations in Transformation, Transition and Transience. Bjerregaard, P., Rasmussen, A. E. & Flohr Sørensen, T. (eds.). Routledge, p. 221-238 18 p. (Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time, Vol. 3).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Tekstuddrag 4; Rane Willerslev: På flugt i Sibirien - Zobeljagt, russisk mafia og 65 minusgrader (2009)

  Willerslev, R., 2016, Genrer i Dansk Rejseliteratur: Rejselitteratur. Hansen, L. M. (ed.). Gyldendal, p. 117-121 5 p. (Genrer i dansk).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• “Animals as Persons” from Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs

  Willerslev, R., 2016, Ethnographies for a Global Century. Laue, C. & Weix, G. (eds.). United States: Cognella Academic Publishing, p. 218-240 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2014

  Our Favorite Film Shocks

  Willerslev, R., 2014, Experimental Film and Anthropology. Schneider, A. & Pasqualino, C. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 79-98 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2013

  Foreword

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Royal Porcelain from Siam: Unpacking the Ring Collection. Håbu, A. & Rooney, D. F. (eds.). Hermes Academic Publishing

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Hunting Animism: Human-Animal Transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs

  Willerslev, R., 2013, The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. Harvey, G. (ed.). Acumen Publishing, p. 148-158

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction: Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Transcultural Montage. Berghahn Books, p. 1-15 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction: Taming Time, Timing Death

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual. Christensen, D. R. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Ashgate, Vol. I. p. 1-16 16 p. (Studies in Death, Materiality and Time, Vol. I).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Montage in Museum Exhibition

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Transcultural Montage. Berghahn Books, p. 141-142 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Part I: Montage as an Analytic: Introduction

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Transcultural Montage. Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 17-19

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Part II: Montage in Writing: Introduction

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Transcultural Montage. Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 97-99 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Part III: Montage in Film : Introduction

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Transcultural Montage. Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 159-162 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Rebirth and the Death drive: Rethinking Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” through a Siberian Time Perspective

  Willerslev, R., 2013, Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual. Ashgate, p. 79-98

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The One-All: The Animist High God

  Willerslev, R., 2013, The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. Harvey, G. (ed.). Acumen Publishing, p. 275-283 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2012

  Revisiting the Animism vs. Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among Eveny and Chukchi of Northeastern Siberia

  Willerslev, R., 2012, Shamanism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood in the Shamanic Ecologies of Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia. Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E. & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds.). Berghahn Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• 2011

  Seeing with Others’ Eyes: Hunting and Idle Talk in the Landscape of the Siberian Iukaghir

  Willerslev, R., 2011, Landscape and Culture in Notherne Eurasia. Jordan, P. (ed.). Left Coast Press, p. 49-70 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2010

  "Proportional Holism: Joking the Cosmos into the Right Shape in North Asia"

  Willerslev, R., 2010, Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology. Otto, T. & Bubandt, N. (eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 262-278 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Seeing with Others' Eyes: Hunting and Idle Talk in the Landscape of the Siberian Yukaghir

  Willerslev, R., 2010, Landscape and Culture in the Siberian North. Jordan, P. (ed.). London: University College London Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• 2006

  To have the World at a Distance: Rethinking the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology

  Willerslev, R., 2006, Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards. Grasseni, C. (ed.). New York and London: The EASA Series: Learning Fields, vol. 6, Berghan Books, p. 24-46 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• 2005

  At leve med de døde: sorg, selvmord og reinkarnation blandt jukagirerne i Nordøst Sibirien

  Translated title of the contribution: Living with the Dead: Grief, Suicide and Reincarnation among the Yukaghirs of North-eastern SiberiaWillerslev, R., 2005, Mens vi venter på døden: dødsopfattelser i etisk og kulturfilosofisk belysning. Brock, S. & Samsø, A. (eds.). Århus: Philosophia, Aarhus Universitet, 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• 1995

  Nordøstsibiriens oprindelige befolkning

  Willerslev, R., 1995, På rejse i Sibirien: tre danske ekspeditioners møde med Nordøstsibiriens jægere og nomader. Damm, A. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). Danmark: Moesgård Museum, p. 12-20 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• På rejse i Sibirien

  Willerslev, R., 1995, På rejse i Sibirien: tre danske ekspeditioners møde med Nordøstsibiriens jægere og nomader: Three Danish Expeditions' encoutner wth the Hunters and Reindeer Herders of Northeastern Siberia. Danmark: Moesgård Museum, p. 6-11 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• 1994

  Jukagirerne: et folk genskabes

  Translated title of the contribution: The Yukaghirs: The Creation of a PeopleWillerslev, R., 1994, Jordens Folk, Tema: Folkeslag i ex-Soviet. Høiris, O. (ed.). Danish Ethnographic Society in cooperation with the Department for Ethnography, University of Aarhus, and Department for Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, p. 154-160 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication