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Author Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella.

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

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 321 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mapuche Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Mapuche Indians -- Government relations.
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Chile.
Shamans -- Chile.
Trees -- Religious aspects.
Chile -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292716582 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292716583 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292716599 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292716591 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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