Rebecca Stone’s The Jaguar Within is a tour-de-force of mature scholarship, elegant writing, and well-illustrated text. This album-sized art book takes the reader on a comparative adventure of deep penetration into shamanic practices and conceptions of the Andes and Costa Rica, via pottery and dramatic visionary imagery. ix + 229 pp. ISBN 978 0 292 73487 6. US$60.00 (cloth) Animals and World Religion, by Lisa Kemmerer, Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2012, xi + 346 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 979067 8 US$99.00 (cloth); ISBN 978 0 19 979068 5 US$35.00 (pbk)