Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

1. Colonising and decolonising ontologies.- Part 1: Amerindian shamanism.- 2. (Mis)Understanding shamanism and animism.- 3. First contacts with Amerindian shamans and their "spirits".- 4. Syncretic ontologies of the microbial-masters of game.- Part 2: Shamanic microscopy, perceiving cellular souls and microbial spirits.- 5. Shamanic epistemologies.- 6. Neuropsychological naturalistic explanations of shamanic visions.- 7. The cavern of the eye: seeing through the retina.- 8. Entoptic microscopy.- Part 3: Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis and Related Diseases.- 9. French malaise in the Taíno myths of origin.- 10. The spotted Sun and the blemished Moon, Nahuatl views on treponematoses.- 11. The West, Syphilis and the other treponematoses.- 12. Threading worlds together.