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, Bacigalupo's fascinating
findings span the ways in which the Chilean state stigmatizes the
machi as witches and sexual deviants; how shamans use paradoxical
discourses about gender to legitimatize themselves as healers and,
at the same time, as modern men and women; the tree's political use
as a symbol of resistance to national ideologies; and other
components of these rich traditions.
The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered
practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this
crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.
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