Shamans of the foye tree [[electronic resource] ] : gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche / / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

• Autore: Bacigalupo Ana Mariella
• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.8/872
• Soggetto topico: Mapuche Indians - Rites and ceremonies; Mapuche Indians - Government relations; Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Chile; Shamans - Chile; Trees - Religious aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Chile Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shamans of the foye tree
• ISBN: 0-292-79526-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452334303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II