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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The gendered realm of the foye tree
  • The ambiguous powers of machi : illness, awingkamiento, and the modernization of witchcraft
  • Gendered rituals for cosmic order : shamanic struggles for wholeness
  • Ritual gendered relationships : kinship, marriage, mastery, and machi modes of personhood
  • The struggle for Machi masculinity : colonial politics of gender, sexuality, and power
  • Machi as gendered symbols of tradition : national discourses and Mapuche resistance movements
  • The responses of male machi to homophobia : reinvention as priests, doctors, and spiritual warriors
  • Female machi : embodying tradition or contesting gender norms?
  • Representing the gendered identities of machi : paradoxes and conflicts.

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