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Albertus Christiaan Kruyt

Dutch anthropologist

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concept of soul-stuff

  • mythological figure
    In myth: Soul-stuff

    …to which the Dutch anthropologist Albertus Christiaan Kruyt gave the term soul-stuff (a term he contrasted with the postmortem soul), is chiefly found among the rice cultivators of the Indonesian culture area, although it is also witnessed elsewhere. Central to this belief is the circulation of vitality throughout different levels…

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