Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. PART ONE. FROM FABLES TO FACTS: THE EUROPEAN RECEPTION OF SHAMANISM
7. Chapter One. The Paradigm of Permissibility, or, Early Reporting Strategies 21
8. Chapter Two. Eighteenth-Century Observations from the Field 43
9. Chapter Three. Interaction, Transformation, and Extinction 67
10. Chapter Four. Shamanism among the Medical Researchers 97
11. PART TWO. BACK TO FICTIONS AND FANTASIES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF SHAMANISM FOR THE ARTS IN EUROPE
12. Chapter Five. The Impact of Russia on Diderot and Le neveu de Ranteau 117
13. Chapter Six. Herder on the Artist as the Shaman of Western Civilization 132
14. Chapter Seven. Mozart, or, Orpheus Reborn 150
15. Chapter Eight. Shamans Failed and Successful in Goethe 166
16. Chapter Nine. Faust, the Modern Shaman 183
17. Afterword Toward a Shamanology 208
18. Notes 217
19. Bibliography 259
20. Index 293