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'''A Field Guide to Otherkin''' is a book about [[otherkin]] written by [[Lupa]] and published by Immanion Press. This book was the first book focusing on the otherkin community in its entirety, and was intended to give outsiders an overview of the community. It relied heavily on responses to surveys which were distributed throughout the community, as well as some online interviews and citations from various otherkin websites.
{{b|A Field Guide to Otherkin}} is a book about [[otherkin]] written by [[Lupa]] and published by Immanion Press. This book was the first book focusing on the otherkin community in its entirety, and was intended to give outsiders an overview of the community.<ref>{{Website
| url = http://www.thegreenwolf.com/afgto.html
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140105113946/http://www.thegreenwolf.com:80/afgto.html
| year = 2013
| title = Book: A Field Guide to Otherkin by Lupa
}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Website
| url = https://therioshamanism.com/2013/04/02/letting-go-of-therianthropy-for-good/
| title = Letting Go of Therianthropy For Good - Therioshamanism
| year = 2013
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://therioshamanism.com/2013/04/02/letting-go-of-therianthropy-for-good/
}}</ref> It relied heavily on responses to surveys which were distributed throughout the community, as well as some online interviews and citations from various otherkin websites. It was removed from print in 2013.<ref name=":0" />

== Removal from print ==
Lupa announced on her Wordpress blog Therioshamanism in April of 2013 that she would be removing the book from print in the following month.<ref name=":0" /> She no longer identified as a therian, found the work to be of low quality with outdated information, and felt that the book was overshadowing her other publications and projects.<ref name=":0" />

== Reception, criticism, and controversy ==
During an interview with Dr. Devin Proctor in 2016, Lupa admitted that even at the time of publishing she was skeptical about if someone could literally identify as nonhuman, as opposed to her personal view of nonhumanity as a form of internal mythology. While speaking with Dr. Proctor, Lupa was critical of people trying to prove the existence of otherkin, claiming that "I'm not entirely convinced that Otherkin is as literal a thing as some people want to make it out to be," and condemning comparisons of nonhuman identity to gender identity.<ref name=":1">{{Article-journal
| last = Proctor
| first = Devin
| year = 2019
| title = On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space
| book = The George Washington University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
| pages = 117-119
| url = https://www.proquest.com/openview/e156c24bf65c4efb0918a8db37433cce/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
}}</ref> In the interview with Dr. Proctor, Lupa implied that she had never identified as a wolf and that she had not historically related to feelings of genuine nonhuman identification within the community, instead considering such identities to fall into the realm of "Unverified Personal Gnosis."<ref name=":1" />


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.thegreenwolf.com/afgto.html A Field Guide to Otherkin] on [[The Green Wolf]]
* [https://archive.is/PNL4F A Field Guide to Otherkin] on [[The Green Wolf]] (Archived Copy)
* [http://www.frameacloud.com/otherkin_and_therianthropes/lupa_field_guide_otherkin Marginalia upon Lupa's ''A Field Guide to Otherkin''] by [[Orion Scribner]]
* [https://archive.is/z86wq Marginalia upon Lupa's 'A Field Guide to Otherkin'] by [[Orion Scribner]]

== References ==
<references />

Latest revision as of 13:12, 17 September 2023

A Field Guide to Otherkin
Media type Book
Release date April 20, 2007
Creator Lupa
Publisher Immanion Press
URL http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Otherkin-Lupa/dp/190571307X


A Field Guide to Otherkin is a book about otherkin written by Lupa and published by Immanion Press. This book was the first book focusing on the otherkin community in its entirety, and was intended to give outsiders an overview of the community.[1][2] It relied heavily on responses to surveys which were distributed throughout the community, as well as some online interviews and citations from various otherkin websites. It was removed from print in 2013.[2]

Removal from print

Lupa announced on her Wordpress blog Therioshamanism in April of 2013 that she would be removing the book from print in the following month.[2] She no longer identified as a therian, found the work to be of low quality with outdated information, and felt that the book was overshadowing her other publications and projects.[2]

Reception, criticism, and controversy

During an interview with Dr. Devin Proctor in 2016, Lupa admitted that even at the time of publishing she was skeptical about if someone could literally identify as nonhuman, as opposed to her personal view of nonhumanity as a form of internal mythology. While speaking with Dr. Proctor, Lupa was critical of people trying to prove the existence of otherkin, claiming that "I'm not entirely convinced that Otherkin is as literal a thing as some people want to make it out to be," and condemning comparisons of nonhuman identity to gender identity.[3] In the interview with Dr. Proctor, Lupa implied that she had never identified as a wolf and that she had not historically related to feelings of genuine nonhuman identification within the community, instead considering such identities to fall into the realm of "Unverified Personal Gnosis."[3]

External links

References

  1. ↑ . 2013. Book: A Field Guide to Otherkin by Lupa
          http://www.thegreenwolf.com/afgto.html.
         Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20140105113946/http://www.thegreenwolf.com:80/afgto.html.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 . 2013. Letting Go of Therianthropy For Good - Therioshamanism
          https://therioshamanism.com/2013/04/02/letting-go-of-therianthropy-for-good/.
         Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://therioshamanism.com/2013/04/02/letting-go-of-therianthropy-for-good/.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Proctor, Devin. 2019. On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space
         
    117-119.
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