LEADER 04082nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910777763003321 005 20230207224830.0 010 $a0-292-79526-2 024 7 $a10.7560/716582 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472940 035 $a(OCoLC)646761204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245751 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000245136 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185666 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245136 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176810 035 $a(PQKB)10229418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443270 035 $a(OCoLC)155842884 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245751 035 $a(DE-B1597)587313 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795266 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472940 100 $a20060901d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShamans of the foye tree$b[electronic resource] $egender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche /$fAna Mariella Bacigalupo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71658-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aDrawing 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. 606 $aMapuche Indians$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aMapuche Indians$xGovernment relations 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xEcology$zChile 606 $aShamans$zChile 606 $aTrees$xReligious aspects 607 $aChile$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aMapuche Indians$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aMapuche Indians$xGovernment relations. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xEcology 615 0$aShamans 615 0$aTrees$xReligious aspects. 676 $a299.8/872 700 $aBacigalupo$b Ana Mariella$01577028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777763003321 996 $aShamans of the foye tree$93855240 997 $aUNINA