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Social SciencesAnthropologyGender StudiesFeminist TheoryGender HistoryPolitical AnthropologyGender In Postcolonial ContextsHegemonic MasculinityMasculinity HistoryPostcolonial FeminismSexual PoliticsShamanismAnti-colonial PoliticsColonial ModernizationGendered Ritual PracticeNegotiated IdentitiesResistance To Gender NormsSexuality PoliticsSexuality Power RelationsTraditional Gender Roles
* Acknowledgments *1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree *2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft *3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness *4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood *5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power *6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements *7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors *8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms? *9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts * Notes * References * Index