Shamans of the foye tree

Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella.

Shamans of the foye tree gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / [electronic resource] : Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007. - xi, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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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Mapuche Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Mapuche Indians--Government relations.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Chile.
Shamans--Chile.
Trees--Religious aspects.


Chile--Social life and customs.


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