Shamans of the foye tree: gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Austin
University of Texas Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Edition: | 1. ed., 2., paperback print. |
| Further subjects: | B
Indigenous Peoples
Ecology
Chile
B Mapuche Indians Government relations B Trees Chile Religious aspects B Chile Social life and customs B Mapuche Indians Rites and ceremonies B Shamans Chile |
| Item Description: | 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. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index. - Formerly CIP |
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| ISBN: | 0292716591 |