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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2008.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA728308 bnb
Uk
Mapuche Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Mapuche Indians--Government relations.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Chile.
Shamans--Chile.
Trees--Religious aspects.
Chile--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
F3126 / .B33 2007eb
299.8/872
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2008.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA728308 bnb
Uk
Mapuche Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Mapuche Indians--Government relations.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Chile.
Shamans--Chile.
Trees--Religious aspects.
Chile--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
F3126 / .B33 2007eb
299.8/872