Variación del Rol de machi dentro de la cultura mapuche

Como cerca del 90 % de los chilenos tenemos obvia herencia mapuche. Les invito a la presentación de la obra de Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Este Jueves 26 a las 5 de la tarde en el 2402 Guadalupe St.(Follett's Intellectual Property); Shamans of the Foye Tree:Gender Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche.

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Sponsored by Follet's Intellectual Property, LLILAS, and
the Center for Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at
Austin.
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche"
is the first study to follow Mapuche shamans' gender

identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and
political contexts. Bacigalupo draws on fifteen years of field

research with Mapuche shamans or machi from Southern Chile to challenge
these notions. She shows how shamans gender identities, and

sexualities change in a variety of ritual, everyday, and political contexts
and are related to competing structures of power and

legitimacy. To machi, the sacred 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.