Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
WSRP Research Associate 1998–99
Home institution
SUNY at Buffalo
Research project
Healers of the Cinnamon Tree, Priestesses of the Moon: Women's Spiritual Empowerment Among the Chilean Mapuche
Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, a study of the predominance of Mapuche women as machis (shaman/healers) in Chile's south central valleys as Mapuche society is assimilated into the Chilean state.
Course
HDS 3715: Native and Latina Women and Religion (Spring 1999)