Shamans of the foye tree [electronic resource] : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.

By: Bacigalupo, Ana MariellaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 321 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Mapuche Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Mapuche Indians -- Government relations | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Chile | Shamans -- Chile | Trees -- Religious aspects | Chile -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 299.8/872 LOC classification: F3126 | .B33 2007Online resources: Click to View
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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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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