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Shamans of the Foye Tree : Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795266
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shamans of the Foye TreeDDC classification:
  • 299.8/872
LOC classification:
  • F3126
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree -- CHAPTER 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft -- CHAPTER 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness -- CHAPTER 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood -- CHAPTER 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power -- CHAPTER 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements -- CHAPTER 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors -- CHAPTER 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms? -- CHAPTER 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree -- CHAPTER 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft -- CHAPTER 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness -- CHAPTER 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood -- CHAPTER 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power -- CHAPTER 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements -- CHAPTER 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors -- CHAPTER 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms? -- CHAPTER 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

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