Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella <br/><br/>
Shamans of the foye tree :  gender, power, and healing among chilean Mapuche / 
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Austin  University of Texas  2007 
 - 321 p. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780292716599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MAPUCHES--RITOS Y CEREMONIAS<br/>Arboles--Aspectos religiosos--Chile<br/>CHAMANES--CHILE<br/>PUEBLOS INDIGENAS--ECOLOGIA--CHILE<br/>MAPUCHES--RELACIONES GUBERNAMENTALES
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299.8  / B125