| Acknowledgments | 7 |
| Illustrations and Plates | 9 |
| Tables | 11 |
| Orthographic Note | 13 |
| Preface to the Paperback Edition | 15 |
| Introduction | 19 |
| Interpretations of Magic | |
| The Aguaruna and Amazonian Ethnography | |
| Studying Aguaruna Magic | |
| Ch. 1 | Alto Mayo | 35 |
| Alto Mayo Ethnohistory | |
| The Alto Mayo Arguaruna, 1978 | |
| Ch. 2 | Seen and Unseen | 46 |
| Ankuash's Snakebite | |
| Being and Becoming in Aguaruna Mythology | |
| Powerful Beings | |
| Souls | |
| Dreams and Visions | |
| Shamanism | |
| Ankuash's Snakebite Reconsidered | |
| Ch. 3 | The Uses of Affinity | 67 |
| Aguaruna Hunting Technology | |
| Magical Songs | |
| Game Grabbers | |
| The Ethnobotany of Attraction | |
| Hunting Failure: Causes and Cures | |
| Ch. 4 | The Garden's Children | 97 |
| Aguaruna Horticulture | |
| The Swidden as Symbolic Space | |
| Gardening Songs | |
| Gardening Stones | |
| Growth-Promoting Plants | |
| Gardening Avoidances | |
| The Structure of Garden Magic | |
| Manioc Horticulture as Practical Signification | |
| Ch. 5 | A Technology of Sentiment | 133 |
| Male-Female Relations | |
| Songs That Direct Human Emotion | |
| Pusagki: Agents of Demented Attraction | |
| Love Magic, Hunting Magic, and the Limits of Affinity | |
| Ch. 6 | Working Metaphors | 162 |
| The Question of Agency | |
| Visionary Experience and the Direction of Events | |
| Creating Order | |
| Is Aguaruna Magic Performative? | |
| Magic, Technology, and the Symbolic Power of the Ordinary | |
| Afterword | 179 |
| Appendix 1: Sources of Anen | 185 |
| Appendix 2: Notes on the Collection, Transcription, and Translation of Aguaruna Anen | 187 |
| Notes | 197 |
| Bibliography | 207 |
| Index | 217 |