The Otherkin community is a small but growing subculture of people who identify in some way--spiritually, metaphorically, etc.--as Other than human. Some resonate with dragons, while others believe they were elves in another life, and still others identify as wolves, great cats, and other animals.
Of course, this all may seem a little odd to those who aren't Otherkin. What do Otherkin believe? Why do we believe these things? How does being Otherkin affect how we relate to the world around us--and ourselves? A Field Guide to Otherkin offers answers straight from over 100 survey respondents, collected by Lupa, herself a wolf therianthrope, and elaborated upon by her.
A Field Guide to Otherkin is designed to inform both Otherkin and non-Otherkin about the community and the people and beliefs that create it. Rather than being a collection of statistics, it is a look into the lives of Otherkin, qualitative rather than quantitative.
Table of Contents
Foreword (by Rialian)
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Are Otherkin?
Chapter 2: Theories of Otherkin Origin (with guest essay by CUSM)
Introduction to Types of Otherkin
Chapter 3: Therianthropy
Chapter 4: Vampires
Chapter 5: Elves and Fey
Chapter 6: Dragons, Gryphons, and Other "Mythological" Animals
Chapter 7: Other 'Kin
Chapter 8: Spirituality and Magic
Chapter 9: So You Think You're Otherkin?
Afterword
Appendix A: Otherkin Gathers Small and Large
Appendix B: Interview with the Vampire Werewolf
Appendix C: The Ubiquitous Survey
Appendix D: Raw Data
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There are two additional excerpts of A Field Guide to Otherkin on Otherkin.net. You can read them here and here. And you can see the survey Lupa used here.
For an amusing commentary on the idea of a book on Otherkin, click here.
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