A Journey in Southern Siberia: The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths

The 1914 survey that pulled scattered Russian ethnography into one book, with long chapters on shamans, spirits and the ceremonies of the northern tribes. Still the standard entry point to Siberian material.

M. A. Czaplicka

The 1895 translation that first brought Siberian shamanism to English readers. Covers the making of a shaman, the drum, the costume and the seance across Tungus, Yakut and Finnic peoples.

V. M. Mikhailovskii

A handbook of the tribes from the Urals to Kamchatka by an ethnographer who spent years living among them. The chapters on religion follow shamanic ritual, dress and cosmology group by group.

Waldemar Jochelson