TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bacigalupo,Ana Mariella
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Shamans of the foye tree: gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche 
AV  - F3126 .B33 2007eb
U1  - 299.8/872 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Mapuche Indians
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Chile
KW  - Shamans
KW  - Trees
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2008; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -