Piers Vitebsky is a noted anthropologist and deputy director (and Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies) at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. An acknowledged expert on Shamanism, he has spent much of the last decade and more living amongst the Eveny people in Siberia. His previous books include Dialogues with the Dead (Cambridge) and The Shaman (Macmillan).

‘Remarkable.’ Financial Times‘Like all the finest anthropology, this book entertains readers with descriptions of an alien culture, only to imbue them with a deeper sense of common humanity.’ The Times‘If you read one book this year on a subject you never suspected would grab your attention and hold it through 400 deeply researched and elegantly written pages, read “Reindeer People”. It will grip and enlighten anyone…Like the reindeer themselves, this book take wing.’ Daily Telegraph‘A tender and highly personal piece of anthropology.’ Daily Mail‘So intimate, so revealing and so moving…This book is required reading.’ The Moscow Times

Piers Vitebsky is a noted anthropologist and deputy director (and Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies) at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. An acknowledged expert on Shamanism, he has spent much of the last decade and more living amongst the Eveny people in Siberia. His previous books include Dialogues with the Dead (Cambridge) and The Shaman (Macmillan).

‘Remarkable.’ Financial Times‘Like all the finest anthropology, this book entertains readers with descriptions of an alien culture, only to imbue them with a deeper sense of common humanity.’ The Times‘If you read one book this year on a subject you never suspected would grab your attention and hold it through 400 deeply researched and elegantly written pages, read “Reindeer People”. It will grip and enlighten anyone…Like the reindeer themselves, this book take wing.’ Daily Telegraph‘A tender and highly personal piece of anthropology.’ Daily Mail‘So intimate, so revealing and so moving…This book is required reading.’ The Moscow Times

Piers Vitebsky is a noted anthropologist and deputy director (and Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies) at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. An acknowledged expert on Shamanism, he has spent much of the last decade and more living amongst the Eveny people in Siberia. His previous books include Dialogues with the Dead (Cambridge) and The Shaman (Macmillan).

‘Remarkable.’ Financial Times‘Like all the finest anthropology, this book entertains readers with descriptions of an alien culture, only to imbue them with a deeper sense of common humanity.’ The Times‘If you read one book this year on a subject you never suspected would grab your attention and hold it through 400 deeply researched and elegantly written pages, read “Reindeer People”. It will grip and enlighten anyone…Like the reindeer themselves, this book take wing.’ Daily Telegraph‘A tender and highly personal piece of anthropology.’ Daily Mail‘So intimate, so revealing and so moving…This book is required reading.’ The Moscow Times