{"product_id":"shamans-of-the-foye-tree-gender-power-and-healing-among-chilean-mapuche-paperback","title":"Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Mariella Bacigalupo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, \u003ci\u003eShamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mapuche shamans, or \u003ci\u003emachi\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003efoye\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emachi\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emachi\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, \u003ci\u003eShamans of the Foye Tree\u003c\/i\u003e offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Mariella Bacigalupo is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 335\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.94 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42111718850640,"sku":"9780292716599","price":66.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/MWJlQUZBQlJXTDM4RXhJcTdMbGFuZz09.webp?v=1772599867","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/shamans-of-the-foye-tree-gender-power-and-healing-among-chilean-mapuche-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}