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. |