Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
June 18, 2025
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
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...
Project Muse
May 17, 2016
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
17 citations
As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community's enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a "civilized" shaman, Francisca narrated the Mapuche people's attachment to their local sacred landscapes,...
Revista Chilena de Antropología
May 2, 2016
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
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...
Identities
February 1, 2013
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
10 citations
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...
Journal of Anthropological Research
April 1, 2010
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
13 citations
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...
L Homme
2004
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
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...
Anthropology of Consciousness
June 1, 1998
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
13 citations
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...