Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
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Research Interests
Medical anthropology; anthropology of religion; social theory; post-structural theory; narratives and practices of health and illness; ethnomedicine; anthropology of the body; phenomenology; death and dying; self and personhood; body politics; shamanism and the nature of the postcolony; indigenous knowledge; experts and non-experts; ritual memory; power and authority; gender and sexuality; the late modern world viewed from the fourth world; materiality and fetishism; historicity; social memory and indigenous histories; indigenous Latin America; Mapuche.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
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2007 Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among the Chilean Mapuche. University of Texas Press. Pp 321.
Review of Shamans of the Foye Tree
2001 La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad: Tradición y Cambio en La Terapéutica de Siete Machi Mapuche. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universidad Católica de Chile. Pp 271.
Review of La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad
1996 Adaptación de lost Métodos de Curación Tradicionales Mapuche: La Prática de la Machi Contemporánea en Chile. Monograph. Santiago, Chile: Publicaciones PAESMI. Pp. 66.
1995 ¿Modernización o Sabiduría en Tierra Mapuche? Co-editor, with Armando Marileo, Ricardo Salas, Ramón Curivil, Cristián Parker and Alejandro Saavedra. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones San Pablo. Pp 198.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
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Under review “The Potency of Bibles and Biography: Mapuche Historical Consciousness in Shamanic Rebirth.” American Ethnologist.
Under review “Mapuche Shamanic Rebirth: Personhood and the Construction of History.” In Shamanisms in the Americas, Harald Prins and Jeffrey Ehrenreich, eds. New York: University of Nebraska press.
2013 “Mapuche Struggles to Obliterate Dominant History: Mythohistory, Spiritual Agency, and Shamanic Historical Consciousness in Southern Chile.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 20(1):77-95.
2013 “Las Mujeres Machi en el siglo XX-XI: ¿Personificación de la Tradición o Desafío a las Normas de Género?” In Historia de la Mujer en Chile Siglos XX-XI. Ana Maria Stuven and Joaquín Fermandois, eds. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Taurus.
2010 “The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Forgetting and the Willful Transformation of Memory.” Journal of Anthropological Research 66(1): 97-119.
2010 “Las Prácticas Espirituales de Poder de los Machi y su Relación con la Resistencia Mapuche y el Estado Chileno.” Revista Chilena de Antropología. #21: 9-37. Santiago, Chile.
2008 “The Re-Invention of Mapuche Male Shamans as Catholic Priests: Legitimizing Indigenous Co-gender Identities in Modern Chile.” In Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Robin Wright and Aparecida Vilaca (eds) Pp. 89-108. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate press.
2005 “The Creation of a Mapuche Sorcerer: Sexual Ambivalence, the Commodification of Knowledge, and the Coveting of Wealth.” Journal of Anthropological Research 61(3):317-336.
2005 “Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Mapuche Shamanic Struggles for Healing and Fertility.” Journal of Ritual Studies 19(2):53-69.
2004 “Shamans' Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol 11(4):1-41.
2004 “The Mapuche Man Who Became a Woman Shaman: Selfhood, Gender Transgression, and Competing Cultural Norms.” American Ethnologist 31(3):440-457.
2004 "Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood.” Journal of Anthropological Research 60(2): 203-229.
2004 “The Struggle for Machi Masculinities: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chile.”
Ethnohistory Vol 51(3):489-533.
2003 “Rethinking Identity and Feminism: Contributions of Mapuche Women and Machi From Southern Chile.” Hypatia 18(2):32-57.
2001 “The Rise of the Mapuche Moon Priestess in Southern Chile.” Annual Review of Women in World Religions. 6:208-259.
1998 “The Exorcising Sounds of Warfare: Shamanic Healing and The Struggle to Remain Mapuche.” Anthropology of Consciousness 9(5):1-16.
1998 " Les Chamanes Mapuche et le Expérience Religieuse Masculine et Féminine.” Anthropologie et Sociétes 22(2):123-143.
1997 “Las Múltiples Máscaras de Ngünechen: Las Batallas Ontológicas y Semánticas del Ser Supremo Mapuche en Chile.” Journal of Latin American Lore 20(1):173-204. Reprinted in Scripta Ethnologica XIX, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996 “Mapuche Women's Empowerment as Shaman/Healers.” Annual Review of Women in World Religions 4:57-129.
1996 “Imágenes de Diversidad y Consenso: La Cosmovisión Mapuche a Través de Trés Machi.” Aisthesis 28:120-141. Santiago, Chile. Reprinted in Mitológicas 11 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
1996 “Identidad, Espacio y Dualidad en los Perimontun (Visiones) de Machi Mapuche.” Scripta Ethnologica XVIII:37-63. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995 “Renouncing Shamanistic Practice: The Conflict of Individual and Culture Experienced by a Mapuche Machi.” Anthropology of Consciousness 6(3):1-16.
1995 “El Rol Sacerdotal de la Machi en los Valles Centrales de la Araucanía.” In Modernización o Sabiduría en Tierra Mapuche? Armando Marileo, Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Ricardo Salas, Ramón Curivil, Cristián Parker, and Alejandro Saavedra, eds. Pp. 51-98. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones San Pablo.
1994 “Variación de Rol de Machi en la Cultura Mapuche. Tipología Geográfica, Adaptiva e Iniciática” Revista Chilena de Antropología 12:19-43. Santiago, Chile.
1994 “El Poder de las Machi Mapuche en los Valles Centrales de la Araucanía.” In Comprensión Del Pensamiento Indígena a través de Sus Expresiones Verbales. Yosuke Kuramochi, ed. Pp. 11-55. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala Editions.
Undergraduate Courses Offered
APY 106 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
APY 324 | Approaches to the Study of Religion
APY 394 |
Healing and Religion in Native South America
APY 421 | The Anthropology of Death and Dying
Graduate Courses Offered
APY 508 |
The Field Experience: Ethnographic Perspectives and Methods
APY 591 | Nationalism, Transnationalism and Global Culture
APY 565 |
Gender and Healing in the Americas: Native and Creole Perspectives
APY 565 | Course in Mapuche Intercultural Health
APY 575 | Social Memory: Narrative, Mementoes, Embodiment, And Forgetting
APY 603 | Anthropology of the Body