Dr Piers Vitebsky

Current core fields of research on Siberia and the Arctic:

• Space and distance: trajectories of nomads, shamans, traders and aviators
• Reindeer-herders and their ecologies
• Changing religions: divinity, experience and politics
• Family dynamics and cross-cultural psychotherapy
• Ethnicity and regionalism
• Oil, gas and society

Other areas of research: indigenous peoples of tropical forests, especially in tribal India; the ancient Greek world; indigenous religions, especially forms of shamanism; psychological anthropology and comparative psychotherapy; memory and forgetting; psychobiography, continuity and transmission; philology and poetics of oral traditions; narrative and dialogue, myth and ritual