
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.
Author:
Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella.
ISBN:
9780292795266
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree -- CHAPTER 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft -- CHAPTER 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness -- CHAPTER 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood -- CHAPTER 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power -- CHAPTER 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements -- CHAPTER 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors -- CHAPTER 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms? -- CHAPTER 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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