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Note to Readers | |
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Introduction: Five Hundred Years of Shamans and Shamanism | |
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The Christian View: "Ministers of the Devil" | |
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"Devil Worship: Consuming Tobacco to Receive Messages from Nature" (1535) | |
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"Ministers of the Devil Who Learn About the Secrets of Nature" (1557) | |
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"Evoking the Devl: Fasting with Tobacco to Learn How to Cure" (1664) | |
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The Shaman: "A Villain of a Magician Who Calls Demons" (1672) | |
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The Humanist View Becomes Rationalist: From "Esteemed Jugglers" to "Imposters" | |
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"The Savages Esteem Their Jugglers" (1724) | |
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"Shamans Deserve Perpetual Labor for Their Hocus-Pocus" (1751) | |
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"Blinded by Superstition" (1755) | |
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"Shamans Are Imposters Who Claim They Consult the Devil-And Who Are Sometimes Close to the Mark" (1765) | |
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Misled Imposters and the Power of Imagination (1785) | |
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Enter Anthropologists | |
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A White Man Goes to a Peaiman (1883) | |
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The Angakoq Uses a Peculiar Language and Defines Taboos (1887) | |
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The-Man-Who-Fell-from-Heaven Shamanizes Despite Persecution (1896) | |
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Shamanism Is a Dangerously Vague Word (1903) | |
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"Doomed to Inspiration" (1904) | |
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Ventriloquist and Trickster Performances for Healing and Divination (1908) | |
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"A Motley Class of Persons" (1908) | |
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Seeking Contact with Spirits Is Not Necessarily Shamanism (1910) | |
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"The Shaman Practices on the Verge of Insanity" (1914) | |
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The Understanding Deepens | |
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Near-Death Experience (1929) | |
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Seeking Knowledge in the Solitude of Nature (1930) | |
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Summoning the Spirits for the First Time (1932) | |
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The Shaman's Assistant (1935) | |
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Shamans Charm Game (1938) | |
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Climbing the Twisted Ladder to Initiation (1944) | |
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Aboriginal Doctors Are Outstanding People (1945) | |
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Shamans as Psychoanalysts (1949) | |
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Using Invisible Substances for Good and Evil (1949) | |
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The Shamanin Performs a Public Service with Grace and Energy (1955) | |
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"The Shaman Is Mentally Deranged" (1956) | |
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Clever Cords and Clever Men (1957) | |
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Singing Multifaceted Songs (1958) | |
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!Kung Medicine Dance (1962) | |
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The Observers Take Part | |
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Smoking Huge Cigars (1956) | |
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"I Was a Disembodied Eye Poised in Space" (1957) | |
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Fear, Clarity, Knowledge, and Power (1968) | |
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"I Found Myself Impaled on the Axis Mundi" (1974) | |
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A Shaman Loses Her Elevation by Interacting with Observers (1977) | |
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"I Felt Like Socrates Accepting the Hemlock" (1980) | |
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Experiencing the Shaman's Symphony to Understand It (1987) | |
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Gathering Evidence on a Multifaceted Phenomenon | |
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A Washo Shaman's Helpers (1967) | |
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Magic Darts, Bewitching Shamans, and Curing Shamans (1968) | |
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"Remarkably Good Theater" (1973) | |
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Two Kinds of Japanese Shamans: The Medium and the Ascetic (1975) | |
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Music Alone Can Alter a Shaman's Consciousness, Which Itself Can Destroy Tape Recorders (1975) | |
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Shamans Are Intellectuals, Translators, and Shrewd Dealers (1975) | |
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Shamans, Caves, and the Master of Animals (1979) | |
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"Plant Teachers" (1984) | |
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A Shaman Endures the Temptation of Sorcery (and Publishes a Book) (1990) | |
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Interview with a Killing Shaman (1992) | |
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Invisible Projectiles in Africa (1994) | |
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Global Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge Come Together and Remain Apart | |
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Science and Magic, Two Roads to Knowledge (1962) | |
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Shamans, "Spirits," and Mental Imagery (1987) | |
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Dark Side of the Shaman (1989) | |
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Shamans Explore the Human Mind (1990) | |
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Training to See What the Natives See (1992) | |
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"Twisted Language," a Technique for Knowing (1993) | |
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Magic Darts as Viruses (1993) | |
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Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Tourists and Pseudo-Shamans (1994) | |
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Shamans and Ethics in a Global World (1995) | |
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Shamans as Botanical Researchers (1995) | |
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Shamanism and the Rigged Marketplace (1995) | |
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An Ethnobotanist Dreams of Scientists and Shamans Collaborating (1998) | |
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Shamans and Scientists (2000) | |
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Envoi | |
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References and Permissions | |
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Notes on the Editors' Commentaries and Further Reading | |
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Topical Index | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Editors | |