Shamanism in Siberia and European 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

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