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Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche
- Title
- Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.
- Author
- Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xi, 321 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JGE 07-130
- ISBN
- 9780292716582 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292716583 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780292716599 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0292716591 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006029141
- OCLC
- 71275548
- Author
- Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella.
- Title
- Shamans of the foye tree : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo.
- Imprint
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JGE 07-130