Shamans of the Foye Tree : : Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche /

Shamans of the Foye Tree : : Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche / / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.

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Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political cont...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (335 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction:
  • 2 The Ambiguous Powers of Machi:
  • 3 Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order:
  • 4 Ritual Gendered Relationships:
  • 5 The Struggle for Machi Masculinity:
  • 6 Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition:
  • 7 The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia:
  • 8 Female Machi:
  • 9 Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi:
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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