 Traditional culture of Ket people was researched by Matthias Castrén, Vasiliy Ivanovich Anuchin, Kai Donner, , Yevgeniya Alekseyevna Alekseyenko.Shamanism was a living practice in the 1930s yet, but by the 1960s almost no authentic shaman could be found.Ket shamanism shared features with those of Turkic and Mongolic peoples.