Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean ...
Apr 1, 2007 · 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.
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Drimys winteri - Wikipedia
Drimys winteri, also known as Winter's bark, foye[2] and canelo, is a slender species of tree in the family Winteraceae, growing up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. It is native to the Magellanic and Valdivian temperate forests of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in …
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among …
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.
Shamans of the Foye Tree - University of Texas Press
Jan 1, 2010 · 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.
The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree - University at Buffalo
Feb 22, 2007 · BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Long-held assumptions about sexual identity and gendered behavior have been turned upside down by a groundbreaking new study of the lives, roles and spiritual practices of the Mapuche shamans of southern Chile.
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among …
Foye trees are sacred trees of life that connect the natural, human, and spirit worlds and allow Mapuche shamans, or machi, to participate in the forces that permeate the cosmos. They are symbols of machi medicine, and machi use the bitter leaves and...
Shamans of the Foye Tree - De Gruyter
Jan 1, 2010 · 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.
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo’s Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche is a descriptively rich and theoretically nuanced ethnographic analysis of Chilean Mapuche shamans or machis.
As indicated in the book’s title, a metaphoric centralizing theme is the foye or cinnamon tree, which serves as a source of symbolic healing and medicinal qualities, as well as a sacred emblem of shamanic authority and ritual performance.
Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Mapuche - Natural …
Sep 15, 2020 · 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.