Introduction / Michael Winkelman and Philip M. Peek -- In search of the real / Koen Stroeken -- Drumming, divination, and healing / Edith Turner -- Calendrical divination by the Ixil Maya of Guatemala / Benjamin N. Colby -- Owner of the day and regulator of the universe / Jacob K. Olupona -- Divination in North American Indian shamanic healing / William S. Lyon -- Ways of knowing and healing / Eva Jane Neumann Fridman -- Divination in multireligious Southeast Asia / Ruth-Inge Heinze -- Healing through the spirits / Krishnakali Majumdar -- The Laibon diviner and healer among Samburu pastoralists of Kenya / Elliot Fratkin -- The Ngawbe all-night home-based vigil / Keith Bletzer -- Yaka divination / René Devisch.