An edition of Shamans of the Foye Tree (2007)

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Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

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An edition of Shamans of the Foye Tree (2007)

Shamans of the Foye Tree

Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

[Publisher-supplied data] Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices. Framed by the cultural constructions of gender and identity, Bacigalupo's fascinating findings span the ways in which the Chilean state stigmatizes the machi as witches and sexual deviants; how shamans use paradoxical discourses about gender to legitimatize themselves as healers and, at the same time, as modern men and women; the tree's political use as a symbol of resistance to national ideologies; and other components of these rich traditions. The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.

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335

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Cover of: Shamans of the Foye Tree
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
2010, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
in English
Cover of: Shamans of the Foye Tree
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
May 1, 2007, University of Texas Press
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Cover of: Shamans of the Foye Tree
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
May 1, 2007, University of Texas Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Shamans of the foye tree
Shamans of the foye tree: gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche
2007, University of Texas Press
in English - 1st ed.

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F3126.B33 2007

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
335
Dimensions
8.7 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
Weight
3.2 ounces

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OL10293576M
ISBN 10
0292716591
ISBN 13
9780292716599
Library Thing
7923326
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1452555

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