A Journey in Southern Siberia

Jeremiah Curtin’s travel account records observations of the peoples, customs, and religious practices encountered in southern Siberia. Valuable as an early ethnographic source, it includes descriptions of local lifeways, folklore, and shamanic traditions as seen through a late nineteenth-century exploratory lens.

American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator whose work preserved mythic and religious traditions from various cultures, especially in collections of tales and legends. He is significant in esoteric and comparative-religion contexts chiefly as a transmitter of indigenous narrative materials rather than as a systematic occult writer.