Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.
To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices. Framed by the cultural constructions of gender and identity, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780292716599ISBN:0292716591
Description: New. Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ri... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN-13:9780292716599ISBN:0292716591
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN-13:9780292716599ISBN:0292716591
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN-13:9780292716599ISBN:0292716591
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