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Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

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ID88397
NAMEAna Mariella Bacigalupo
GIVEN NAMESAna Mariella
FAMILY NAMEBacigalupo
SIGNATUREBACIGALUPO A M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
ORCID0009-0008-3704-6631
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS102
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6
  • Crisis climáticas y futuros postapocalípticos

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropologica•2026

    Las narrativas escatológicas anti-antropocéntricas de los curanderos del norte de Perú, impregnadas de discursos científicos sobre el cambio climático, reescriben el debate sobre el cambio climático desde un punto de vista no humano. Al realizar una investigación etnográfica en el norte de Perú desde un marco descolonizador indígena, muestro cómo los compromisos de los curanderos con los paisajes ancestrales con agencia pueden restaurar el sentid…

  • Climate Crises and Postapocalyptic Futures

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal for the Study of Religion…•2026

    Northern Peruvian shamans’ anti-anthropocentric eschatological narratives infused with scientific climate change discourses rewrite the climate change debate from a nonhuman point of view. By engaging in ethnographic research in Northern Peru through an indigenous decolonizing framework, I show how shamanic engagements with ancestor landscapes can restore a sense of belonging to the earth to meet the challenge of predatory capitalism and catastro…

  • Introduction

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Carlos Manrique et al.•ARTICLE•American Religion•2024•Cited by: 1

    The introduction to this special issue, "Subversive Religion and More-than-Human Materialities in Latin America," conceptualizes the transformative force of practices often gathered under the rubric of "popular religion," including Indigenous, Black, and campesino ritual as well as vernacular Catholicism and Pentecostalism. Rather than treating these practices as manifesting an essential alterity to either the modern state or the "West," we frame…

  • Pan-Indigenous Ethical Cosmopolitics

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Religion•2024•Cited by: 2

    Pan-Indigenous Peruvian norteños respond to political corruption, climate change, and environmental devastation by engaging Indigenous sentient landscapes as leaders of environmental movements and cocreators of a pan-Indigenous world. They challenge social models of neoliberal capitalism and settler colonialism, which are based on the distinction between the human and more-than-human and promote human exceptionalism. Scholars of political ontolog…

  • Cannibalistic exchanges with mountain-ancestors

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•The Journal of Latin American and…•2024•References: 14

    Campesinos (peasants) and norteños (northerner entrepreneurs) in highland Huamachuco, la Libertad, northern Peru-reconcile their mining within Andean practices about the perceived sentience and agency of mountain-ancestors (apus). They do so by engaging in two different types of apu cannibalism that are antithetical to each other. I analyze how the conflict between Andean campesino communities who practice small-scale underground mining on the ap…

  • Queering the Spirit of the Law

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, F Le Bonniec•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2024•References: 22

    Judge Karen Atala framed her child custody case against the Chilean Supreme Court within Indigenous Mapuche “shamanic justice,” the “spirit of the law,” and human rights. We analyze what Atala’s case contributes to the literature on sexual diversity, sorcery, and the spirit of the law in both Chilean and Mapuche histories of justice. The case engages the spirit of the law in two senses. First, it reveals the lack of separation between religious a…

  • The Mapuche Undead Never Forget

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Humanism•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 31

    The Mapuche undead, killed by the Chilean state but lacking funerals to finish them as persons, remain trapped in the places of their deaths. They are both symbols of Mapuche rage against state-sponsored genocide and social agents who play central roles in Mapuche cosmopolitics and multitemporal memory making. While memory studies focus on pastness and national commemorations the celebration of individual martyrs, the undead foreground the collec…

  • Grafismo, multitemporalidad y textos como objetos de poder en la biografía de una Machi Mapuche en Chile

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2016•References: 28

    Mapuche oral shamanic biographies and performances —some of which take the form of “bibles” and involve shamanic literacies— play a central role in the production of indigenous history in southern Chile. In this article, I explain how and why a mixed-race Mapuche shaman charged me with writing about her life and practice in the form of such a “bible”. This book would become a ritual object and a means of storing her shamanic power by textualizing…

  • The Paradox of Disremembering the Dead

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Humanism•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    This article examines how the processes of disremembering, the transformations of memory and personhood, and the rebirth of Mapuche shamans address and cloud issues of social persistence and cohesion in a community. My analysis is grounded in the broader culture of death rituals but also advances a reading of these rituals as expressions of an essentially historical consciousness: how Mapuche shamans such as Francisca Kolipi mediate indigenous en…

  • The potency of indigenous "bibles" and biographies

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 62

    Mapuche oral shamanic biographies and performances-some of which take the form of "bibles" and involve shamanic literacies-play a central role in the production of indigenous history in southern Chile. In this article, I explain how and why a mixed-race Mapuche shaman charged me with writing about her life and practice in the form of such a "bible." This book would become a ritual object and a means of storing her shamanic power by textualizing i…

  • Mapuche struggles to obliterate dominant history

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Identities•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 29

    The biographical mythohistory of Rosa Kurin, an ethnically mixed Mapuche-German shaman in southern Chile in the late 1800s, expresses a 'shamanic historical consciousness' that advances current debates over the dynamic relationship between history and myth and between indigenous and national history. Biographical mythohistory is a mixed genre that mediates among different memoralisations of the past to obliterate dominant Chilean history and to c…

  • Variación del rol de Machi dentro de la cultura Mapuche

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2011

    La machi realiza sus funciones de diversas formas dentro de los patrones culturales aceptables para los mapuches. El propósito de este trabajo es aportar al mejor entendimiento de las variantes del rol de machi y contrarrestar las generalizaciones que suelen hacerse sobre este agente médico-ritual. Me interesa sobre todo indicar variaciones de grupos de machis dentro de la cultura mapuche y crear tipologías. Estas tipologías darán un mejor entend…

  • Rituales de Género para el Orden Cósmico

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 1

    The struggle for uholeness-the melding of all experiencie and knowledge of the world-is central to the parctice of machi, or Mapuche shamans, in southern Chile. I explore how the gender and generational aspects of Mapuche persons are extender to the socio-cosmological order, to Mapuche ritual practice, and to the creation of a holistic machi personhood. I outline the application of holistic personbood in Mapuche cosmology and the analyze its perf…

  • Las Prácticas Espirituales de Poder de los Machi y su Relación con la Resistencia Mapuche y el Estado Chileno

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    In this article I explore Mapuche shamans' (machi) "political" role as attributed by some national Chilean discourses and those of Mapuche resistance movements and how machi's maintain a distinctive understanding of power and action based on the mapuche notion of newen. Newen is a broad notion of power based on relationships with the spirits of humans (living and dead), animals, and places in nature. I look at the ways gendered national discourse…

  • Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes. Rachel Corr

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2011

  • Relaciones de género ritual

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Austral de Ciencias…•2010

    es: En este articulo describo como los lazos de parentesco espiritual, los matrimonios espirituales y las relaciones de dominio entre los chamanes mapuche (m

  • Monuments, Empires, and Resistance

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•REVIEW•Chungara•2010

    Introduction 1. Purposes, settings, and definitions 2. Shaping analogical and conceptual perspectives 3. Araucanian prehistory and history: old biases and new views 4. Imbricating social, material, metaphorical, and spiritual worlds 5. The ethnographies of kuel, narratives, and communities 6. An archaeological view of kuel and rehuekuel 7. Contact, fragmentation, and recruitment and the rehuekuel 8. Recursiveness, kinship geographies, and polity …

  • The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2010•Cited by: 10

    I draw on ethnographic and archival material collected between 1991 and 2008 to explore the story of a Mapuche shaman in her community in southern Chile and illuminate the ways in which particular marginalized groups see themselves in time. Francisca Colipi's unique position as both an anomalous, liminal outsider and a powerful mediator between internal community factions and ethnicities makes her biography a productive place from which to view M…

  • Monuments, Empires, and Resistance

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2008

  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•BOOK•Shamans of the Foye Tree•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. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers,…

  • Taken From the Lips

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Academy…•2007

    Sylvia Marcos provides insights into the conceptual religious archaeology of Mesoamerican gender and eros. Drawing on the hermeneutics of Mesoamerican oral discourses, she analyzes precontact archaeological records and explores indigenous and Spanish voices in colonial documents and codices. She cuts through the layers of misinterpretation and mistranslation of indigenous erotic and gender concepts to tease out indigenous knowledges. She also see…

  • The Creation of a Mapuche Sorcerer

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2005•Cited by: 4

    I analyze Jorge's case as paradigmatic of Mapuche sorcery in Chile because he epitomizes many of the contradictory ways in which Mapuche perceive and categorize people they believe embody evil and threaten sociality. Capitalist consumption and individual success are both desired by Mapuche and criticized as antithetical to spirituality, morality, and community values. Mapuche see sorcerers as people who (a) draw on older Mapuche notions of ambiva…

  • Shamans’ Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Identities•2004

    In this article, I look at the ways in which gendered national discourses and the discourses of Mapuche resistance movements coerce and construct shamans (machi) and the ways in which machi appropriate, transform, and contest these images. I explore the contradictions between machi’s hybrid practices and their traditional representations of self and why they choose to represent themselves as they do. My interest lies in the ways in which studying…

  • Local Shamanic Knowledges

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•L Homme•2004

  • Local Shamanic Knowledges

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•L Homme•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Thank you for this opportunity to respond to historian Guillaume Boccara’s review of my ethnography La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad : Tradicion y Cambio en la Terapeutica de Siete Machi. Boccara’s lack of understanding of the anthropological literature, ethnographic methodologies and writing, and his authoritarian imposition of his own perspective cripple his ability to give a fair reading of my text. I summarize here just a selection of spec…

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  • The potency of indigenous "bibles" and biographies

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 62

    Mapuche oral shamanic biographies and performances-some of which take the form of "bibles" and involve shamanic literacies-play a central role in the production of indigenous history in southern Chile. In this article, I explain how and why a mixed-race Mapuche shaman charged me with writing about her life and practice in the form of such a "bible." This book would become a ritual object and a means of storing her shamanic power by textualizing i…

  • The Mapuche man who became a woman shaman

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2004•Cited by: 11•References: 39

    Through the life experiences of Marta, a Mapuche male transgendered shaman in Chile, I analyze how selfhood is gendered dynamically by individual desire and competing cultural and religious norms. Marta's unique identity as a divine heterosexual woman is based on a spiritual transformation, her manner of dressing, and her gender performances. It challenges conventional notions of transvestism, transgenderism, and homosexuality linked to sexed bod…

  • The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2010•Cited by: 10

    I draw on ethnographic and archival material collected between 1991 and 2008 to explore the story of a Mapuche shaman in her community in southern Chile and illuminate the ways in which particular marginalized groups see themselves in time. Francisca Colipi's unique position as both an anomalous, liminal outsider and a powerful mediator between internal community factions and ethnicities makes her biography a productive place from which to view M…

  • Mapuche struggles to obliterate dominant history

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Identities•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 29

    The biographical mythohistory of Rosa Kurin, an ethnically mixed Mapuche-German shaman in southern Chile in the late 1800s, expresses a 'shamanic historical consciousness' that advances current debates over the dynamic relationship between history and myth and between indigenous and national history. Biographical mythohistory is a mixed genre that mediates among different memoralisations of the past to obliterate dominant Chilean history and to c…

  • The Struggle for Mapuche Shamans' Masculinity

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•2004•Cited by: 7•References: 21

    Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans (machi weye) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender, and power dynamics. I contrast colonial Mapuche (Reche) perceptions of machi as co-gender specialists having alternative sexualities with the discourses of sodomy, sorcery, and…

  • Renouncing Shamanistic Practice

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1995•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    This article analyzes the conflict between traditional beliefs, cultural roles, and the search for individuality through the study of Fresia, a young Mapuche woman who renounced shamanistic practice. Her case demonstrates that the social transmission of traditional beliefs and symbols is not in itself enough to ensure the commitment of shaman/healers who must also internalize their cultural beliefs and attach personal meaning to them through thei…

  • The Paradox of Disremembering the Dead

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Humanism•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    This article examines how the processes of disremembering, the transformations of memory and personhood, and the rebirth of Mapuche shamans address and cloud issues of social persistence and cohesion in a community. My analysis is grounded in the broader culture of death rituals but also advances a reading of these rituals as expressions of an essentially historical consciousness: how Mapuche shamans such as Francisca Kolipi mediate indigenous en…

  • Ritual Gendered Relationships

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2004•Cited by: 6

    I show how spiritual kinships ties, spiritual marriages, and relationships of mastery between Mapuche shamans (machi), animals, and spirits in initiation and healing rituals reflect historical ethnic and national relationships, social and gender dynamics, and complex understandings of personhood. Machi's spiritual relationships are shaped by the gendered power dynamics of colonial mastery and domination, marriage and seduction, possession and ecs…

  • The Exorcising Sounds of Warfare

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1998•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Since the cessation of Mapuche guerrilla warfare against Chileans in 1881, machis who are predominantly women, have progressively incorporated aspects of traditional warring into their shamanic healing and performance of collective nguiUatun rituals. Guns, knives, war cries, and male pre-war bonding acts are used by machis to "kill" or "defeat" illness, evil, and the effects of acculturation on their patients and the community. Acculturation is o…

  • The Creation of a Mapuche Sorcerer

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2005•Cited by: 4

    I analyze Jorge's case as paradigmatic of Mapuche sorcery in Chile because he epitomizes many of the contradictory ways in which Mapuche perceive and categorize people they believe embody evil and threaten sociality. Capitalist consumption and individual success are both desired by Mapuche and criticized as antithetical to spirituality, morality, and community values. Mapuche see sorcerers as people who (a) draw on older Mapuche notions of ambiva…

  • Rethinking Identity and Feminism

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Hypatia•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    I analyze how machi discourse and practice of gender and identity contribute to feminist debates about gendered indigenous Others, and the effects that Western notions of Self and Other and feminist rhetoric have on Mapuche women and machi: people who heal with herbal remedies and the help of spirits. Machi juggling of different worlds offers a particular understanding of the way identity and gender are constituted and of the relationship between…

  • Rethinking Identity and Feminism

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Hypatia•2003•Cited by: 3•References: 6

  • Studying Mapuche Shaman/Healers in Chile from an Experiential Perspective

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1999•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    Anthropologists who "study" religious practitioners are always confronted with both an ethical and a methodological problem. Our traditional training asks us to remain detached from our "informants" and their beliefs in order to collect "data" whose content will be analyzed according to academic agendas and theoretical trends, translated into anthropological jargon and published in ethnographies that will be accepted, published, and read in the a…

  • Pan-Indigenous Ethical Cosmopolitics

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Religion•2024•Cited by: 2

    Pan-Indigenous Peruvian norteños respond to political corruption, climate change, and environmental devastation by engaging Indigenous sentient landscapes as leaders of environmental movements and cocreators of a pan-Indigenous world. They challenge social models of neoliberal capitalism and settler colonialism, which are based on the distinction between the human and more-than-human and promote human exceptionalism. Scholars of political ontolog…

  • The Mapuche Undead Never Forget

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Humanism•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 31

    The Mapuche undead, killed by the Chilean state but lacking funerals to finish them as persons, remain trapped in the places of their deaths. They are both symbols of Mapuche rage against state-sponsored genocide and social agents who play central roles in Mapuche cosmopolitics and multitemporal memory making. While memory studies focus on pastness and national commemorations the celebration of individual martyrs, the undead foreground the collec…

  • Les chamanes mapuche et l'expérience religieuse masculine et féminine

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropologie et Sociétés•2003•Cited by: 2

    Les chamanes mapuche et l'expérience religieuse des hommes et des femmes Dans son exploration du chamanisme. cet article adopte la perspective du féminisme critique pour proposer un discours réflexif sur le rôle du genre dans ses rapports au pouvoir, au prestige et à l'expérience religieuse. Je prends l'exemple ethnographique des chamanes mapuche. ou machi. du sud du Chili, pour expliquer comment le genre est diversement construit, et pour montre…

  • Introduction

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Carlos Manrique et al.•ARTICLE•American Religion•2024•Cited by: 1

    The introduction to this special issue, "Subversive Religion and More-than-Human Materialities in Latin America," conceptualizes the transformative force of practices often gathered under the rubric of "popular religion," including Indigenous, Black, and campesino ritual as well as vernacular Catholicism and Pentecostalism. Rather than treating these practices as manifesting an essential alterity to either the modern state or the "West," we frame…

  • Rituales de Género para el Orden Cósmico

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 1

    The struggle for uholeness-the melding of all experiencie and knowledge of the world-is central to the parctice of machi, or Mapuche shamans, in southern Chile. I explore how the gender and generational aspects of Mapuche persons are extender to the socio-cosmological order, to Mapuche ritual practice, and to the creation of a holistic machi personhood. I outline the application of holistic personbood in Mapuche cosmology and the analyze its perf…

  • Las Prácticas Espirituales de Poder de los Machi y su Relación con la Resistencia Mapuche y el Estado Chileno

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Chilena de Antropología•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    In this article I explore Mapuche shamans' (machi) "political" role as attributed by some national Chilean discourses and those of Mapuche resistance movements and how machi's maintain a distinctive understanding of power and action based on the mapuche notion of newen. Newen is a broad notion of power based on relationships with the spirits of humans (living and dead), animals, and places in nature. I look at the ways gendered national discourse…

  • Local Shamanic Knowledges

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•L Homme•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Thank you for this opportunity to respond to historian Guillaume Boccara’s review of my ethnography La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad : Tradicion y Cambio en la Terapeutica de Siete Machi. Boccara’s lack of understanding of the anthropological literature, ethnographic methodologies and writing, and his authoritarian imposition of his own perspective cripple his ability to give a fair reading of my text. I summarize here just a selection of spec…

  • The Gift of Life

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1999•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. Bonnie GlassCoffin. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 246 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper

  • Medicinas y Culturas en la Araucanía

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1994

    Medicinas y Culturas en la Araucanía. Luca Citarella (editor). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Sudamericana, 1995. 617 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 956–262–031‐X

  • Introducción A La Religiosidad Mapuche

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1994

    Introducción A La Religiosidad Mapuche. Rolf Foerster. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1993. 184 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography. ISBN 956–11–0912–3

  • Medicinas y Culturas en la Araucania

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1994

  • Introduccion A La Religiosidad Mapuche

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1994

  • Renouncing Shamanistic Practice

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1995•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    This article analyzes the conflict between traditional beliefs, cultural roles, and the search for individuality through the study of Fresia, a young Mapuche woman who renounced shamanistic practice. Her case demonstrates that the social transmission of traditional beliefs and symbols is not in itself enough to ensure the commitment of shaman/healers who must also internalize their cultural beliefs and attach personal meaning to them through thei…

  • Feminist theory and the study of folklore

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Women s Studies International Forum•1996

  • The Exorcising Sounds of Warfare

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1998•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Since the cessation of Mapuche guerrilla warfare against Chileans in 1881, machis who are predominantly women, have progressively incorporated aspects of traditional warring into their shamanic healing and performance of collective nguiUatun rituals. Guns, knives, war cries, and male pre-war bonding acts are used by machis to "kill" or "defeat" illness, evil, and the effects of acculturation on their patients and the community. Acculturation is o…

  • The Gift of Life

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1999•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. Bonnie GlassCoffin. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 246 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper

  • Studying Mapuche Shaman/Healers in Chile from an Experiential Perspective

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Consciousness•1999•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    Anthropologists who "study" religious practitioners are always confronted with both an ethical and a methodological problem. Our traditional training asks us to remain detached from our "informants" and their beliefs in order to collect "data" whose content will be analyzed according to academic agendas and theoretical trends, translated into anthropological jargon and published in ethnographies that will be accepted, published, and read in the a…

  • Guerre et ethnogenèse Mapuche dans le Chili colonial

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Hispanic American Historical Review•2001

    The goal of this book is to demystify the legendary Mapuche resistance to the Inkas and later to the Spaniards between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and explain the process by which Mapuche identity was constructed. The book is of great historiographic significance. Guillaume Boccara explores the relationship among sociopolitical organization, warfare, Mapuche ethnogenesis, and colonial institutions of power, organization, and authority.…

  • Rethinking Identity and Feminism

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Hypatia•2003•Cited by: 3•References: 6

  • Rethinking Identity and Feminism

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Hypatia•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    I analyze how machi discourse and practice of gender and identity contribute to feminist debates about gendered indigenous Others, and the effects that Western notions of Self and Other and feminist rhetoric have on Mapuche women and machi: people who heal with herbal remedies and the help of spirits. Machi juggling of different worlds offers a particular understanding of the way identity and gender are constituted and of the relationship between…

  • Les chamanes mapuche et l'expérience religieuse masculine et féminine

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Anthropologie et Sociétés•2003•Cited by: 2

    Les chamanes mapuche et l'expérience religieuse des hommes et des femmes Dans son exploration du chamanisme. cet article adopte la perspective du féminisme critique pour proposer un discours réflexif sur le rôle du genre dans ses rapports au pouvoir, au prestige et à l'expérience religieuse. Je prends l'exemple ethnographique des chamanes mapuche. ou machi. du sud du Chili, pour expliquer comment le genre est diversement construit, et pour montre…

  • Shamans’ Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Identities•2004

    In this article, I look at the ways in which gendered national discourses and the discourses of Mapuche resistance movements coerce and construct shamans (machi) and the ways in which machi appropriate, transform, and contest these images. I explore the contradictions between machi’s hybrid practices and their traditional representations of self and why they choose to represent themselves as they do. My interest lies in the ways in which studying…

  • Local Shamanic Knowledges

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•L Homme•2004

  • Local Shamanic Knowledges

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•L Homme•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Thank you for this opportunity to respond to historian Guillaume Boccara’s review of my ethnography La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad : Tradicion y Cambio en la Terapeutica de Siete Machi. Boccara’s lack of understanding of the anthropological literature, ethnographic methodologies and writing, and his authoritarian imposition of his own perspective cripple his ability to give a fair reading of my text. I summarize here just a selection of spec…

  • Ritual Gendered Relationships

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2004•Cited by: 6

    I show how spiritual kinships ties, spiritual marriages, and relationships of mastery between Mapuche shamans (machi), animals, and spirits in initiation and healing rituals reflect historical ethnic and national relationships, social and gender dynamics, and complex understandings of personhood. Machi's spiritual relationships are shaped by the gendered power dynamics of colonial mastery and domination, marriage and seduction, possession and ecs…

  • The Struggle for Mapuche Shamans' Masculinity

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•2004•Cited by: 7•References: 21

    Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans (machi weye) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender, and power dynamics. I contrast colonial Mapuche (Reche) perceptions of machi as co-gender specialists having alternative sexualities with the discourses of sodomy, sorcery, and…

  • The Mapuche man who became a woman shaman

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2004•Cited by: 11•References: 39

    Through the life experiences of Marta, a Mapuche male transgendered shaman in Chile, I analyze how selfhood is gendered dynamically by individual desire and competing cultural and religious norms. Marta's unique identity as a divine heterosexual woman is based on a spiritual transformation, her manner of dressing, and her gender performances. It challenges conventional notions of transvestism, transgenderism, and homosexuality linked to sexed bod…

  • The Creation of a Mapuche Sorcerer

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2005•Cited by: 4

    I analyze Jorge's case as paradigmatic of Mapuche sorcery in Chile because he epitomizes many of the contradictory ways in which Mapuche perceive and categorize people they believe embody evil and threaten sociality. Capitalist consumption and individual success are both desired by Mapuche and criticized as antithetical to spirituality, morality, and community values. Mapuche see sorcerers as people who (a) draw on older Mapuche notions of ambiva…

  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•BOOK•Shamans of the Foye Tree•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. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers,…

  • Taken From the Lips

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Academy…•2007

    Sylvia Marcos provides insights into the conceptual religious archaeology of Mesoamerican gender and eros. Drawing on the hermeneutics of Mesoamerican oral discourses, she analyzes precontact archaeological records and explores indigenous and Spanish voices in colonial documents and codices. She cuts through the layers of misinterpretation and mistranslation of indigenous erotic and gender concepts to tease out indigenous knowledges. She also see…

  • Monuments, Empires, and Resistance

    Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2008

  • Relaciones de género ritual

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•ARTICLE•Revista Austral de Ciencias…•2010

    es: En este articulo describo como los lazos de parentesco espiritual, los matrimonios espirituales y las relaciones de dominio entre los chamanes mapuche (m

  • Monuments, Empires, and Resistance

    Open Access•Ana Mariella Bacigalupo•REVIEW•Chungara•2010

    Introduction 1. Purposes, settings, and definitions 2. Shaping analogical and conceptual perspectives 3. Araucanian prehistory and history: old biases and new views 4. Imbricating social, material, metaphorical, and spiritual worlds 5. The ethnographies of kuel, narratives, and communities 6. An archaeological view of kuel and rehuekuel 7. Contact, fragmentation, and recruitment and the rehuekuel 8. Recursiveness, kinship geographies, and polity …

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