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Shamans through time: 500 years on the path to knowledge
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J.P. Tarcher/Putnam
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
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Introduction: Five Hundred Years of Shamans and Shamanism / Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley
1. Devil Worship: Consuming Tobacco to Receive Messages from Nature (1535) / Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
2. Ministers of the Devil Who Learn About the Secrets of Nature / Andre Thevet
3. Evoking the Devil: Fasting with Tobacco to Learn How to Cure (1664) / Antoine Biet
4. Shaman: A Villain of a Magician Who Calls Demons (1672) / Avvakum Petrovich
5. Savages Esteem Their Jugglers (1724) / Joseph Francois Lafitau
6. Shamans Deserve Perpetual Labor for Their Hocus-Pocus (1751) / Johann Georg Gmelin
7. Blinded by Superstition (1755) / Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov
8. Shamans Are Impostors Who Claim They Consult the Devil - And Who Are Sometimes Close to the Mark (1765) / Denis Diderot / [et al.]
9. Misled Impostors and the Power of Imagination (1785) / Johann Gottfried Herder
10. Animism Is the Belief in Spiritual Beings (1871) / Edward B. Tylor
11. White Man Goes to a Peaiman (1883) / Everard F. Im Tburn
12. Angakoq Uses a Peculiar Language and Defines Taboos (1887) / Franz Boas
13. The-Man-Who-Fell-from-Heaven Shamanizes Despite Persecution (1896) / Wenceslas Sieroshevski
14. Shamanism Is a Dangerously Vague Word (1903) / Arnold Van Gennep
15. Doomed to Inspiration (1904) / Waldemar Bogoras
16. Ventriloquist and Trickster Performances for Healing and Divination (1908) / Vladimir Ilich Jochelson
17. Motley Class of Persons (1908) / Roland B. Dixon
18. Seeking Contact with Spirits Is Not Necessarily Shamanism (1910) / Franz Boas
19. Shaman Practices on the Verge of Insanity (1914) / Marie Antoinette Czaplicka
20. Near-Death Experience (1929) / Ivalo Rasmussen and Knud Rasmussen
21. Seeking Knowledge in the Solitude of Nature (1930) / Igjugarjuk Rasmussen and Knud Rasmussen
22. Summoning the Spirits for the First Time (1932) / Black Elk and John G. Neihardt
23. Shaman's Assistant (1935) / Sergei M. Shirokogoroff
24. Shamans Charm Game (1938) / Willard Z. Park
25. Climbing the Twisted Ladder to Initiation (1944) / Alfred Metraux
26. Aboriginal Doctors Are Outstanding People (1945) / Adolphus Peter Elkin
27. Shamans as Psychoanalysts (1949) / Claude Levi-Strauss
28. Using Invisible Substances for Good and Evil (1949) / Alfred Metraux
29. Shamanin Performs a Public Service with Grace and Energy (1955) / Verrier Elwin
30. Shaman Is Mentally Deranged (1956) / George Devereux
31. Clever Cords and Clever Men (1957) / Ronald Rose
32. Singing Multifaceted Songs (1958) / Vilmos Dioszegi
33. !Kung Medicine Dance (1962) / Lorna Marshall
34. Smoking Huge Cigars (1956) / Francis Huxley
35. I Was a Disembodied Eye Poised in Space (1957) / R. Gordon Wasson
36. Fear, Clarity, Knowledge, and Power (1968) / Carlos Castaneda
37. I Found Myself Impaled on the Axis Mundi (1974) / Barbara Myerhoff
38. Shaman Loses Her Elevation by Interacting with Observers (1977) / Maria Sabina and Alvaro Estrada
39. I Felt Like Socrates Accepting the Hemlock (1980) / Michael Harner
40. Experiencing the Shaman's Symphony to Understand It (1987) / Holger Kalweit
41. Washo Shaman's Helpers (1967) / Don Handelman
42. Magic Darts, Bewitching Shamans, and Curing Shamans (1968) / Michael Harner
43. Remarkably Good Theater (1973) / John T. Hitchcock
44. Two Kinds of Japanese Shamans: The Medium and the Ascetic (1975) / Carmen Blacker
45. Music Alone Can Alter a Shaman's Consciousness, Which Itself Can Destroy Tape Recorders (1975) / Dale A. Olsen
46. Shamans Are Intellectuals, Translators, and Shrewd Dealers (1975) / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
47. Shamans, Caves, and the Master of Animals (1979) / Walter Burkert
48. Plant Teachers (1984) / Luis Eduardo Luna
49. Shaman Endures the Temptation of Sorcery (and Publishes a Book) (1990) / Fernando Payaguaje
50. Interview with a Killing Shaman (1992) / Ashok Skafte and Peter Skafte
51. Invisible Projectiles in Africa (1994) / Malidoma Patrice Some
52. Science and Magic, Two Roads to Knowledge (1962) / Claude Levi-Strauss
53. Shamans, "Spirits," and Mental Imagery (1987) / Richard Noll
54. Dark Side of the Shaman (1989) / Michael F. Brown
55. Shamans Explore the Human Mind (1990) / Roger Walsh
56. Training to See What the Natives See (1992) / Edith Turner
57. Twisted Language, a Technique for Knowing (1993) / Graham Townsley
58. Magic Darts as Viruses (1993) / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
59. Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Tourists and Pseudo-Shamans (1994) / Marlene Dobkin de Rios
60. Shamans and Ethics in a Global World (1995) / Eleanor Ott
61. Shamans as Botanical Researchers (1995) / Wade Davis
62. Shamanism and the Rigged Marketplace (1995) / Piers Vitebsky
63. Ethnobotanist Dreams of Scientists and Shamans Collaborating (1998) / Glenn H. Shepard
64. Shamans and Scientists (2000) / Jeremy Narby.
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