Piers Vitebsky

Who is Piers Vitebsky?

Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England.

Since the 1980s, Vitebsky has carried out fieldwork with the Evens of Siberia, and other peoples of India and Sri Lanka.

Vitebsky won the Kiriyama Prize.

He has become Runner Up for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2007 awarded annually by Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

Vitebsky has also collaborated with a number of documentary films, including: "Siberia: after the shaman"; "Arctic aviators" and "Flightpaths to the gods".