Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 321 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.