Peoples of Asiatic Russia

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

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