Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions 13
6. Chapter 2 The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience 34
7. Chapter 3 Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role, Anomalousness, Control, and Balance 49
8. Chapter 4 Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity 66
9. Chapter 5 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum 93
10. Chapter 6 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum 125
11. Chapter 7 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum 149
12. Chapter 8 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum 183
13. Conclusion 205
14. Notes 211
15. Works Cited 217
16. Index 225