Shamans through time: 500 years on the path to knowledge

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.