Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs

“This book is fantastic is because it’s about the way in which being a shaman is nearly destroyed by Stalin and his policies. He wants to wipe it out for the same sort of reason that Protestants want to wipe out the grey areas that I’ve been describing in late medieval culture: because he wants everybody to have exactly the same mindset. Of course it fails, which is the good news. The bad news is a lot of people die, but the good news is that it fails.” Read more...

The best books on Witches and Witchcraft

Diane Purkiss, Historian