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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The author has analyzed a large corpus of unique materials of the last 150 years on Teleut shamans and Shor story tellers. The Teleut and Shor are two small indigenous peoples of Siberia. This monograph is based on archival and literatary sources, and previous studies, as well as on the author`s own materials and data collected during field work in the 1980s-1990s. The author focuses his attention on shamans and story tellers and their personal views and inner worlds. Comments, appendices, and bibliographical references. Also available by the same author: Teleutskoe Shamanstvo? Traditsionyye Etnograficheskie Interpretatsii i Novye Issledovatel`skie Vozmozhnosti (1997).