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Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist whose fieldwork among the Chukchi of northeastern Siberia shaped later Arctic studies. His research formed the basis of The Chukchee, published in the early twentieth century as part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition publi...
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The Chukchee is an ethnographic monument with exceptional linguistic and cultural documentation; enduring authority despite colonial-era categories and uneven theoretical framing.
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Caroline Humphrey is a British social anthropologist whose research has focused on Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal, and Ukraine. Her work examines Soviet and post-Soviet society, Buryat and Daur shamanism, Buddhism in Inner Mongolia, pastoral economies, trade and barter, and the political and...
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Highly acclaimed Mongolia and Siberia scholarship transformed postsocialist, shamanism, and political-imagination studies; distinguished theoretical range and exceptional regional expertise.
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Piers Vitebsky is a British social anthropologist whose research concerns religion, ecology, and Indigenous peoples in Siberia and tribal India. He conducted long-term fieldwork with the Eveny of northeastern Siberia, focusing on shamanism, reindeer herding, landscape, and changing relations between...
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Acclaimed Evenk and Sora ethnographies combine shamanism, emotion, socialism, and ecological change; praised for depth, accessibility, and long-term field relationships.
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Leo Sternberg was a Russian ethnographer and anthropologist whose fieldwork focused on Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East and northern Pacific region. During research connected with Sakhalin and the lower Amur area, he documented the Nivkh, called Gilyak in older sources, as well as other lo...
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Extensive Sakhalin research provided foundational documentation and influenced Boasian anthropology; respected historical legacy, though less accessible and internationally prominent today.
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Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist associated with psychological anthropology and the study of religion, altered states, and culture. His book The Peyote Cult examined peyote use and religious practice among Indigenous peoples in North America. His broader scholarship interpreted ritual...
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The Peyote Cult remains influential in religion and psychological anthropology; broad erudition impressed peers, but speculative psychoanalytic and evolutionary claims aged unevenly.
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Stephen Hugh-Jones is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Cambridge who conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Barasana and other Tukanoan-speaking peoples of the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research, conducted within the structuralist tradition infl...
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Barasana and Amazonian shamanism work highly respected; significant regional influence.
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A battle is about to begin in Tokyo: the Shaman Fight, a tournament held every five hundred years where shaman—those who can command spirits—confront each other in combat. The victor of this contest becomes the Shaman King and the only one who is able to contact and control the Great Spirit, allowin...
Thorn Queen is a 2009 urban fantasy and paranormal romance novel by Richelle Mead, and the second volume in the Dark Swan series. It continues the story of Eugenie Markham, a shaman who banishes supernatural beings but also inherits authority within the Otherworld. The plot combines her uneasy respo...
Storm Born, published in 2008, is the first novel in Richelle Mead's Dark Swan series. It follows Eugenie Markham, a professional shaman who uses magic to banish beings from the Otherworld, a realm inhabited by faeries and other supernatural creatures. The novel combines an urban setting with faery...
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American writer who studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and became known for books presented as accounts of teachings from a Yaqui man called Don Juan Matus. His first book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, was pu...
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Famous public books but ethnographic authenticity widely discredited; academic consensus very weak.
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