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Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among chilean Mapuche / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: University of Texas Austin 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 321 pISBN:
  • 9780292716599
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.8 B125 21
Contents:
Introduction: The gendered realm of the the foye tree -- The ambiguous power 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 -- responses of male machi to homophobia : reinvention as priests, doctors, and spiritual warriors -- Female machi : embodying tradition or contest gender norms? -- Representing the gendered identities of machi : paradoxes and Conflicts.
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Introduction: The gendered realm of the the foye tree -- The ambiguous power 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 -- responses of male machi to homophobia : reinvention as priests, doctors, and spiritual warriors -- Female machi : embodying tradition or contest gender norms? -- Representing the gendered identities of machi : paradoxes and Conflicts.

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