Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella. <br/><br/>
Shamans of the foye tree  gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche /  [electronic resource] : 
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Austin :  University of Texas Press,  2007. 
 - xi, 321 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2008. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA728308  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mapuche Indians--Rites and ceremonies.<br/>Mapuche Indians--Government relations.<br/>Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Chile.<br/>Shamans--Chile.<br/>Trees--Religious aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Chile--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F3126  / .B33 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299.8/872