Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella. <br/><br/>
Shamans of the Foye Tree :  Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (336 pages) 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780292795266 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mapuche Indians-Rites and ceremonies.<br/>Mapuche Indians-Government relations.<br/>Ethnoecology-Chile.<br/>Shamans-Chile.<br/>Trees-Religious aspects.<br/>Chile-Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F3126 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299.8/872