ISBN:
0292716583
,
0292716591
,
9780292716582
,
9780292716599
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 321 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
299.8872
Keywords:
Mapuche Indians Rites and ceremonies
;
Mapuche Indians Government relations
;
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
Shamans
;
Trees Religious aspects
;
Mapuche
;
Schamanismus
;
Baum
;
Religion
;
Ritus
;
Chile Social life and customs
;
Chile
;
Mapuche
;
Schamanismus
;
Heiliger Baum
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index
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