{"product_id":"shamans-through-time-isbn-9781585423620","title":"Shamans Through Time","description":"A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists, the pieces express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary magic-makers who imitated the sounds of animals in the night, or drank tobacco juice through funnels, or wore collars filled with stinging ants?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShamans Through Time\u003c\/b\u003e is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, and Frank Boas, it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world.Note to Readers\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Five Hundred Years of Shamans and Shamanism - Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: The Christian View: \"Ministers of the Devil\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. \"Devil Worship: Consuming Tobacco to Receive Messages from Nature\" (1535) - Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo\u003cbr\u003e2. \"Ministers of the Devil Who Learn About the Secrets of Nature\" (1557) - André Thévet\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Evoking the Devl: Fasting with Tobacco to Learn How to Cure\" (1664) - Antoine Biet\u003cbr\u003e4. The Shaman: \"A Villain of a Magician Who Calls Demons\" (1672) - Avvakum Petrovich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Humanist View Becomes Rationalist: From \"Esteemed Jugglers\" to \"Imposters\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. \"The Savages Esteem Their Jugglers\" (1724) - Joseph François Lafitau\u003cbr\u003e6. \"Shamans Deserve Perpetual Labor for Their Hocus-Pocus\" (1751) - Johann Georg Gmelin\u003cbr\u003e7. \"Blinded by Superstition\" (1755) - Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov\u003cbr\u003e8. \"Shamans Are Imposters Who Claim They Consult the Devil—And Who Are Sometimes Close to the Mark\" (1765) - Denis Diderot and colleagues\u003cbr\u003e9. Misled Imposters and the Power of Imagination (1785) - Johann Gottfried Herder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Enter Anthropologists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Animism Is the Belief in Spiritual Beings (1871) - Edward B. Tylor\u003cbr\u003e11. A White Man Goes to a \u003ci\u003ePeaiman\u003c\/i\u003e (1883) - Everard F. Im Tburn\u003cbr\u003e12. The \u003ci\u003eAngakoq\u003c\/i\u003e Uses a Peculiar Language and Defines Taboos (1887) - Franz Boas\u003cbr\u003e13. The-Man-Who-Fell-from-Heaven Shamanizes Despite Persecution (1896) - Wenceslas Sieroshevski\u003cbr\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eShamanism\u003c\/i\u003e Is a Dangerously Vague Word (1903) - Arnold Van Gennep\u003cbr\u003e15. \"Doomed to Inspiration\" (1904) - Waldemar Bogoras\u003cbr\u003e16. Ventriloquist and Trickster Performances for Healing and Divination (1908) - Vladimir Ilich Jochelson\u003cbr\u003e17. \"A Motley Class of Persons\" (1908) - Roland B. Dixon\u003cbr\u003e18. Seeking Contact with Spirits Is Not Necessarily Shamanism (1910) - Franz Boas\u003cbr\u003e19. \"The Shaman Practices on the Verge of Insanity\" (1914) - Marie Antoinette Czaplicka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: The Understanding Deepens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. Near-Death Experience (1929) Ivalo and Knud Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e21. Seeking Knowledge in the Solitude of Nature (1930) - Igjugârjuk and Knud Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e22. Summoning the Spirits for the First Time (1932) - Black Elk and John G. Neihardt\u003cbr\u003e23. The Shaman's Assistant (1935) - Sergei M. Shirokogoroff\u003cbr\u003e24. Shamans Charm Game (1938) - Willard Z. Park\u003cbr\u003e25. Climbing the Twisted Ladder to Initiation (1944) - Alfred Métraux\u003cbr\u003e26. Aboriginal Doctors Are Outstanding People (1945) - Adolphus Peter Elkin\u003cbr\u003e27. Shamans as Psychoanalysts (1949) - Claude Lévi-Strauss\u003cbr\u003e28. Using Invisible Substances for Good and Evil (1949) - Alfred Métraux\u003cbr\u003e29. The Shamanin Performs a Public Service with Grace and Energy (1955) - Verrier Elwin\u003cbr\u003e30. \"The Shaman Is Mentally Deranged\" (1956) - George Devereux\u003cbr\u003e31. Clever Cords and Clever Men (1957) Ronald Rose\u003cbr\u003e32. Singing Multifaceted Songs (1958) - Vilmos Diószegi\u003cbr\u003e33. !Kung Medicine Dance (1962) - Lorna Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: The Observers Take Part\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e34. Smoking Huge Cigars (1956) - Francis Huxley\u003cbr\u003e35. \"I Was a Disembodied Eye Poised in Space\" (1957) - R. Gordon Wasson\u003cbr\u003e36. Fear, Clarity, Knowledge, and Power (1968) - Carlos Castaneda\u003cbr\u003e37. \"I Found Myself Impaled on the Axis Mundi\" (1974) - Barbara Myerhoff\u003cbr\u003e38. A Shaman Loses Her Elevation by Interacting with Observers (1977) - Maria Sahina and Alvaro Estrada\u003cbr\u003e39. \"I Felt Like Socrates Accepting the Hemlock\" (1980) - Michael Harner\u003cbr\u003e40. Experiencing the Shaman's Symphony to Understand It (1987) - Holger Kalweit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six: Gathering Evidence on a Multifaceted Phenomenon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e41. A Washo Shaman's Helpers (1967) - Don Handelman\u003cbr\u003e42. Magic Darts, Bewitching Shamans, and Curing Shamans (1968) - Michael Harner\u003cbr\u003e43. \"Remarkably Good Theater\" (1973) - John T. Hitchcock\u003cbr\u003e44. Two Kinds of Japanese Shamans: The Medium and the Ascetic (1975) - Carmen Blacker\u003cbr\u003e45. Music Alone Can Alter a Shaman's Consciousness, Which Itself Can Destroy Tape Recorders (1975) - Dale A. Olsen\u003cbr\u003e46. Shamans Are Intellectuals, Translators, and Shrewd Dealers (1975) - Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff\u003cbr\u003e47. Shamans, Caves, and the Master of Animals (1979) - Walter Burkert\u003cbr\u003e48. \"Plant Teachers\" (1984) - Luis Eduardo Luna\u003cbr\u003e49. A Shaman Endures the Temptation of Sorcery (and Publishes a Book) (1990) - Fernando Payaguaje\u003cbr\u003e50. Interview with a Killing Shaman (1992) - Ashok and Peter Skafte\u003cbr\u003e51. Invisible Projectiles in Africa (1994) - Malidoma Patrice Somé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Seven: Global Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge Come Together and Remain Apart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e52. Science and Magic, Two Roads to Knowledge (1962) - Claude Lévi-Strauss\u003cbr\u003e53. Shamans, \"Spirits,\" and Mental Imagery (1987) - Richard Noll\u003cbr\u003e54. Dark Side of the Shaman (1989) - Michael F. Brown\u003cbr\u003e55. Shamans Explore the Human Mind (1990) - Roger Walsh\u003cbr\u003e56. Training to See What the Natives See (1992) - Edith Turner\u003cbr\u003e57. \"Twisted Language,\" a Technique for Knowing (1993) - Graham Townsley\u003cbr\u003e58. Magic Darts as Viruses (1993) - Jean-Pierre Chaumeil\u003cbr\u003e59. Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Tourists and Pseudo-Shamans (1994) - Marlene Dobkin de Rios\u003cbr\u003e60. Shamans and Ethics in a Global World (1995) - Eleanor Ott\u003cbr\u003e61. Shamans as Botanical Researchers (1995) - Wade Davis\u003cbr\u003e62. Shamanism and the Rigged Marketplace (1995) - Piers Vitebsky\u003cbr\u003e63. An Ethnobotanist Dreams of Scientists and Shamans Collaborating (1998) - Glenn H. Shepard\u003cbr\u003e64. Shamans and Scientists (2000) - Jeremy Narby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvoi\u003cbr\u003eReferences and Permissions\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Editors' Commentaries and Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eTopical Index\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeremy Narby, Ph.D.\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e. 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