| Note to Readers | |
| Introduction: Five Hundred Years of Shamans and Shamanism | p. 1 |
| Devil Worship: Consuming Tobacco to Receive Messages from Nature (1535) | p. 11 |
| Ministers of the Devil Who Learn About the Secrets of Nature | p. 13 |
| Evoking the Devil: Fasting with Tobacco to Learn How to Cure (1664) | p. 16 |
| The Shaman: A Villain of a Magician Who Calls Demons (1672) | p. 18 |
| The Savages Esteem Their Jugglers (1724) | p. 23 |
| Shamans Deserve Perpetual Labor for Their Hocus-Pocus (1751) | p. 27 |
| Blinded by Superstition (1755) | p. 29 |
| Shamans Are Impostors Who Claim They Consult the Devil - And Who Are Sometimes Close to the Mark (1765) | p. 32 |
| Misled Impostors and the Power of Imagination (1785) | p. 36 |
| Animism Is the Belief in Spiritual Beings (1871) | p. 41 |
| A White Man Goes to a Peaiman (1883) | p. 43 |
| The Angakoq Uses a Peculiar Language and Defines Taboos (1887) | p. 47 |
| The-Man-Who-Fell-from-Heaven Shamanizes Despite Persecution (1896) | p. 49 |
| Shamanism Is a Dangerously Vague Word (1903) | p. 51 |
| Doomed to Inspiration (1904) | p. 53 |
| Ventriloquist and Trickster Performances for Healing and Divination (1908) | p. 58 |
| A Motley Class of Persons (1908) | p. 64 |
| Seeking Contact with Spirits Is Not Necessarily Shamanism (1910) | p. 69 |
| The Shaman Practices on the Verge of Insanity (1914) | p. 72 |
| Near-Death Experience (1929) | p. 79 |
| Seeking Knowledge in the Solitude of Nature (1930) | p. 81 |
| Summoning the Spirits for the First Time (1932) | p. 84 |
| The Shaman's Assistant (1935) | p. 90 |
| Shamans Charm Game (1938) | p. 94 |
| Climbing the Twisted Ladder to Initiation (1944) | p. 97 |
| Aboriginal Doctors Are Outstanding People (1945) | p. 103 |
| Shamans as Psychoanalysts (1949) | p. 108 |
| Using Invisible Substances for Good and Evil (1949) | p. 112 |
| The Shamanin Performs a Public Service with Grace and Energy (1955) | p. 115 |
| The Shaman Is Mentally Deranged (1956) | p. 119 |
| Clever Cords and Clever Men (1957) | p. 121 |
| Singing Multifaceted Songs (1958) | p. 128 |
| !Kung Medicine Dance (1962) | p. 131 |
| Smoking Huge Cigars (1956) | p. 137 |
| I Was a Disembodied Eye Poised in Space (1957) | p. 141 |
| Fear, Clarity, Knowledge, and Power (1968) | p. 148 |
| I Found Myself Impaled on the Axis Mundi (1974) | p. 154 |
| A Shaman Loses Her Elevation by Interacting with Observers (1977) | p. 166 |
| I Felt Like Socrates Accepting the Hemlock (1980) | p. 169 |
| Experiencing the Shaman's Symphony to Understand It (1987) | p. 178 |
| A Washo Shaman's Helpers (1967) | p. 187 |
| Magic Darts, Bewitching Shamans, and Curing Shamans (1968) | p. 195 |
| Remarkably Good Theater (1973) | p. 200 |
| Two Kinds of Japanese Shamans: The Medium and the Ascetic (1975) | p. 207 |
| Music Alone Can Alter a Shaman's Consciousness, Which Itself Can Destroy Tape Recorders (1975) | p. 212 |
| Shamans Are Intellectuals, Translators, and Shrewd Dealers (1975) | p. 216 |
| Shamans, Caves, and the Master of Animals (1979) | p. 223 |
| Plant Teachers (1984) | p. 227 |
| A Shaman Endures the Temptation of Sorcery (and Publishes a Book) (1990) | p. 230 |
| Interview with a Killing Shaman (1992) | p. 234 |
| Invisible Projectiles in Africa (1994) | p. 238 |
| Science and Magic, Two Roads to Knowledge (1962) | p. 245 |
| Shamans, "Spirits," and Mental Imagery (1987) | p. 248 |
| Dark Side of the Shaman (1989) | p. 251 |
| Shamans Explore the Human Mind (1990) | p. 257 |
| Training to See What the Natives See (1992) | p. 260 |
| Twisted Language, a Technique for Knowing (1993) | p. 263 |
| Magic Darts as Viruses (1993) | p. 272 |
| Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Tourists and Pseudo-Shamans (1994) | p. 277 |
| Shamans and Ethics in a Global World (1995) | p. 280 |
| Shamans as Botanical Researchers (1995) | p. 286 |
| Shamanism and the Rigged Marketplace (1995) | p. 291 |
| An Ethnobotanist Dreams of Scientists and Shamans Collaborating (1998) | p. 298 |
| Shamans and Scientists (2000) | p. 301 |
| Envoi | p. 306 |
| References and Permissions | p. 307 |
| Notes on the Editors' Commentaries and Further Reading | p. 316 |
| Topical Index | p. 318 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 322 |
| About the Editors | p. 323 |
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