Shamans of the Foye Tree : Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche /

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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:
Trees > Religious aspects.
Shamans > Chile.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Chile.
Mapuche Indians > Government relations.
Mapuche Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Chile > Social life and customs.
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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