Antropolog cultural de origine poloneza, specialist de renume in domeniul  samanismului siberian. A studiat mai intai in Polonia si apoi la Facultatea de Antropologie de la London School of Economics si la Somerville College, Oxford din Marea Britanie. A condus o expeditie de cercetare in Siberia organizata de  Oxford University, University of Pennsylvania si Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology si a realizat o ampla cercetare a literaturii referitoare la triburile native siberiene, care a devenit ulterior vasta lucrare Aboriginal Siberia.

Opera (selectiv)

Aboriginal Siberia;

My Siberian Year;

The Turks of Central Asia.

Tribes of the Yenisei. The Oxford Expedition”. Times Russian Supplement. 13.

„History and Ethnology in Central Asia”. Man. 21.

„On the track of the Tungus”. Scottish Geographical Magazine. 33

„Siberia and some Siberians”. Journal of the Manchester Geographical Soc. 32.