The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination Enlightenment and romantic writers look at shamans From Siberia to North America: regionalists anthropologists and exiled ethnographers Neurotics to tribal psychoanalysts: shamans through the eyes of psychology Power plants: psychedelic culture meets tribal spirituality Shamanism goes global: Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda Anthropology Castanedas healing fiction and neo shamanism print culture Toward the ancient future: shamanism in the modern West Sources of inspiration: from Native Americana to European pagan folklore Back to Siberia: adventures of the metaphor in its motherland