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Preface
Chapter 1: Enlightenment and Romantic Writers Look at Shamans
- The Birth of the Metaphor: Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment
Explorers
- Out of India:
Romantic Orientalism about the Sources of Shamanism
- Romantic Naturphilosophie and Indigenous Spirituality
- “Our Early Ancestors”: Finnish Ethnography and Siberian Native
Spirituality
- Wilhelm Radloff Pioneers Shamanism Studies
Chapter 2: From Siberia to North America: Regionalists,
Anthropologists and “Exiled” Ethnographers
- “Ethnographic Fantasies” of Siberian Regionalists,
1870s-1920s
- “Red Atlantis”: American Regionalists Learn From
the Indigenous Primitive, 1920s-1930s
- In Search of American Indian “Traditional” Culture:
Anthropology of Franz Boas
- Shamanism Goes to North
America: Jesup Expedition and “Nations of Shamans”
- Morbid Landscapes: Shamanism in Siberian Exiles’
Writings
Chapter 3: Neurotics to Tribal Psychoanalysts: Shamans
through the Eyes of Psychology
- “Arctic Hysteria” as “Breeding Ground” for
Shamanism
- “Institutionalized Madhouse for Primitives”:
Shamanism as Mental Disorder
- “Little Hans Totemist”: Psychoanalysis and the
Shaman
- Sergei Shirokogoroff: “Psychomental Complex” of
Tungus Shamans
- Humanistic Scholarship Revisits Shamanism
Chapter 4: Power Plants: Psychedelic Scholarship Meets
“Tribal” Spirituality
- “Sacred Mushroom Seeker”: Gordon Wasson
- "Mushroom Conspiracy”: Sacred Soma, Fly
Mushroom and the Origin of Religion
- “Psychedelic Anthropology”
- Ayahuasca Shamanism
- Mystical Tourism
Chapter 5: Shamanism Goes Global: Mircea Eliade and
Carlos Castaneda
- Social and Intellectual Setting: 1960s and 1970s
- Mircea Eliade and “Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy”
- Eliade’s Legacy: Supporters and Critics
- Carlos Castaneda: Making of Don Juan Matus
- “California
Cosmology”
- “We’re all nothing but bags of stories”: Castaneda
the Postmodernist
Chapter 6: Castaneda’s Lessons, Anthropology, and “Tales
of Power”
- “Knowing Things by Turning into Them”: Anthropology
of Experience
- “Tales of Power”: Print Culture of Modern Western
Shamanism
- Shamanism Through the Eyes of Mainstream
Anthropology Scholarship
Chapter 7: Toward the Ancient Future: Shamanism in the
Modern West
- Michael Harner and “Core Shamanism”
- Diversity of Modern Western Shamanism
- “Sociology” of Modern Western Shamanism
Chapter 8: Sources of Inspiration: from Native Americana
to European Pagan Folklore
- Neo-shamanism and Native Americana
- Spirit Wars: the Indians and
"Whiteshamans"
- Cultural and Intellectual Blend: North American
Style
- Merlin’s Call: Western Shamanism in Search for
Indigenous European Spirituality
Chapter 9: Back to Siberia: Adventures of the Metaphor
in Its Motherland
- “Chosen by Social Evolution”: Shamanism Through
Marxist Eyes
- Religion of the Oppressed, Useful Esotericism, or
Obstacle to Modernity?
- Siberian Shamans Become Class Enemies
- Shamanism and Indigenous Ethnic Renaissance in
Post-Communist Siberia
- "Entering the Circle": Siberian
Neo-shamanism as Part of World Esotericism
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliographical
Essay
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