In Haiti, a Vodoun priestess responds to the rhythm of drums and, taken by the spirit, handles burning embers with impunity. In the Amazonian lowlands, a Waorani Hunter detects the scent of animal urine at forty paces and identifies the species that deposited it in the rain forest On an open escarpment in the high Arctic, Inuit elders fuse myth with landscape, interpreting the past in the shadow of clouds cast upon ice. Just to know that nomadic hunters exist is to remember that the human imagination is vast, fluid, infinite in its capacity for social and spiritual invention.