As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her
spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's spirit traveled to other
historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to
conduct spiritual warfare against her community's enemies,
including forestry companies and settlers. As a "civilized" shaman,
Francisca narrated the Mapuche people's attachment to their local
sacred landscapes, which are themselves imbued with shamanic power,
and constructed nonlinear histories of intra- and interethnic
relations that created a moral order in which Mapuche become
history's spiritual victors. Thunder Shaman represents an
extraordinary collaboration between Francisca Kolipi and
anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, who became Kolipi's
"granddaughter," trusted helper, and agent in a mission of
historical (re)construction and myth-making. The book describes
Francisca's life, death, and expected rebirth, and shows how she
remade history through multitemporal dreams, visions, and spirit
possession, drawing on ancestral beings and forest spirits as
historical agents to obliterate state ideologies and the
colonialist usurpation of indigenous lands. Both an academic text
and a powerful ritual object intended to be an agent in shamanic
history, Thunder Shaman functions simultaneously as a shamanic
"bible," embodying Francisca's power, will, and spirit long after
her death in 1996, and an insightful study of shamanic historical
consciousness, in which biography, spirituality, politics, ecology,
and the past, present, and future are inextricably linked. It
demonstrates how shamans are constituted by historical-political
and ecological events, while they also actively create history
itself through shamanic imaginaries and narrative forms.
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