The Healing Machi : An Ethnography of Mapuche Medicine Efficacies
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Epistemologies of Healing
ISBN-10
1807580229
ISBN-13
9781807580223
Publisher
Berghahn Books
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Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2026
Print length
216 Pages
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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 Machi”, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make ‘spirits from the past’ present.
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 Machi”, a person who can see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques. These techniques produce changes in bodily and affective experience, which are not mediated by reconfigurations of symbolic meaning. Machi also experience küymin, or ritual trance, through which a group of people can receive a direct message from ‘spirits from the past’. Thus, embodying the ancestors, Machi can provide both explanations of illness and misfortune and moral guidance for future action.
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