Curriculum vitae

Courses

Additional Information

Additional Information

Additional Information

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Office Hours

On leave 2009-2010

Research Interests

Ethnomedicine, anthropology of the body, anthropology of religion,
ritual, and healing, shamanism, gender and sexuality, discourses and
practices of power, the politics of tradition and modernity, indigenous
identity politics and the state, self and personhood, social memory and
history, indigenous Latin America, Chile, Mapuche.

Selected Publications

BOOKS
2007 Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among the Chilean Mapuche. University of Texas Press. Pp 321.

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.

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.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Forthcoming. "The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Forgetting and the Willful Transformation of Memory" Journal of Anthropological Research/ 66(1).

2009 "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.

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.

2009 “Las Prácticas Espirituales de Poder de los Machi: y su Relación con la Resistencia Mapuche y el Estado Chileno” Revista de Antropología Chilena Vol 21.

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).

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.

Undergraduate Courses Offered

            APY 106 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

            APY 324 | Approaches to the Study of Religion

            APY 394 | Religion and Healing: Native South America

            APY 421 | The Anthropology of Death and Dying

Graduate Courses Offered

            APY 508 | The Field Experience

            APY 591 | Nationalism, Transnationalism and Global Culture

            APY 565 | Gender and Healing in Latin America

            APY 565 | Course in Mapuche Intercultural Health