Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche /

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[Publisher-supplied data] Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mapuche Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Mapuche Indians > Government relations.
Ethnoecology > Chile.
Shamans > Chile.
Trees > Religious aspects.
Shamanism.
Gender identity.
Shamanism
Indians, South American > ethnology
Gender Identity
Plants, Medicinal
Ceremonial Behavior
Ethnoécologie > Chili.
Arbres > Aspect religieux.
Chamanisme.
Identité de genre.
Plantes médicinales.
shamanism.
sex role.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Mapuches > Ritos y ceremonias.
Chamanismo > Chile
Rol sexual > Chile
Mapuches > Relaciones con los gobiernos.
Gender identity
Ethnoecology
Manners and customs
Mapuche Indians > Government relations
Mapuche Indians > Rites and ceremonies
Shamans
Trees > Religious aspects
Mapuche (volk)
Riten.
Sjamanisme.
Sekseverschillen.
Kolonialism > sexualitet > identitet > normer > Chile.
Ursprungsbefolkningar > politik.
Mapuche (folk)
Schamaner > Chile.
Folktro > Chile.
Chile > Social life and customs.
Chile
Chili.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:[Publisher-supplied data] Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices. Framed by the cultural constructions of gender and identity, Bacigalupo's fascinating findings span the ways in which the Chilean state stigmatizes the machi as witches and sexual deviants; how shamans use paradoxical discourses about gender to legitimatize themselves as healers and, at the same time, as modern men and women; the tree's political use as a symbol of resistance to national ideologies; and other components of these rich traditions. The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index.
ISBN:9780292795266
0292795262

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