RT Book
T1 Shamans of the foye tree: gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche
A1 Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella 1964-
LA English
PP Austin
PB University of Texas Press
YR 2009
ED 1. ed., 2., paperback print.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1604779381
NO 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
CN F3126
SN 9780292716599
K1 Mapuche Indians : Rites and ceremonies
K1 Mapuche Indians : Government relations
K1 Indigenous Peoples : Ecology : Chile
K1 Shamans : Chile
K1 Trees : Chile : Religious aspects
K1 Chile : Social life and customs