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A groundbreaking examination of Chile’s Mapuche shamans and their use of a unique tree in ritual transvestitism and political defiance.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree
  • 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft
  • 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness
  • 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood
  • 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power
  • 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements
  • 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors
  • 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms?
  • 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/04/2007
      ISBN13: 9780292716599, 978-0292716599
      ISBN10: 0292716591

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A groundbreaking examination of Chile’s Mapuche shamans and their use of a unique tree in ritual transvestitism and political defiance.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree
      • 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft
      • 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness
      • 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood
      • 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power
      • 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements
      • 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors
      • 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms?
      • 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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