Shamans of the foye tree gender, power, and healing among Chilean Mapuche /

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Huvudupphov: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Institutionellt upphov: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Upplaga:1st ed.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.