Healing machi, the: an ethnography of mapuche medicine efficacies
Auteur :
Barros, Adelaida
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9781807580223
Date de publication :
15 oct. 2026
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Library binding
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machiâ€, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make ‘spirits from the past’ present.