Shamans of the foye tree [electronic resource] : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.
Publication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 299.8/872 22
- F3126 .B33 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
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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