Aboriginal Siberia: A Study in Social Anthropology

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

Curtin travelled among the Buryat Mongols in 1900 and came back with their creation myths, hero tales and an account of their religion before Buddhism reshaped it. Part travel narrative, part collection of oral tradition.

Jeremiah Curtin