Mapuche:
Lindblom:
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University of California Berkeley:
Center for Latin American Studies Frame of reference:
The following is a narration of a dream by a Chilean Machi Medicine Woman and is typical of how Native American Mapuche see Spiritual Systems.
"I dreamt that zumpall (mermaid) gave me clothing, boots, and a coat. There was a car, a Ford, and there was a gringa woman waiting at the car. The mermaid gave me a bouquet of flowers.
Before I got in the car, I was dressed with a tunic like silk. The gringa woman drove the car to the bottom of the ocean and, god was there, who followed me everywhere.
After this dream, god wouldn't let me alone, and I kept having dreams and more dreams and, every once in a while my body would tremble like it does when I take datura for a machitun or when I rub a sick person.
One day the mermaid saw me, but I did not see her. But I felt it in my body. It was so strong that I could not move. The sumpall is a very beautiful mermaid, she has her face painted, and she likes to dance in the water. Two mermaids brought me two saddled horses and they gave me fish. My shamanic power comes from the lake.
The mermaids tell me what herbs to use with my patients in dreams. They name the herbs and they show them to me.
To be a good shaman you need to be prepared. The good shamans are those who learn through dreams and not through others."
Machi Tomasa's dream of shamanic initiation
Chile
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/nakashima/tomasa.html
Coping with stress: dream interpretation in the Mapuche family.
Degarrod LN.
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
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| 1997-98 | Lydia Nakashima Degarrod / Anthropology / Dreaming Beauty and Subverting Power: The Operation of the Sacred and Aesthetic in Mapuche Dream Narratives |
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Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
email: LydiaDegarrod@aol.com
description:I would like to join the list of people interested in the Mapuche. I am an anthropologist who has done research on the Mapuche (1981, 1982, 1985-87, 1989) and have several publications. Currently I am writing a book on Mapuche dream narration. I am also a painter and have done paintings of Mapuche dreams to heaven as part of a study on aesthetics. You can see the paintings and dream texts in the website of the Center for LAtin american Center at UC Berkeley: www.clas.berkeley.edu/clas
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Joao George Nascimento
Email: jmanke@vtr.net
Me gustaría aprender sobre el pueblo mapuche para de esta forma saber cuáles son mis raíces principalmente. Hola, Mari Mari Peñi-Lamien Mi nombre es Joao y pertenezco al colectivo Coordinadora de Fuerzas por el Bio-Bío, creada inicialmente con el fin de apoyar a las familias Pewenche en resistencia a la construcción de la represa Ralco. Últimemente nos hemos comenzado a comunicar más con mapuche urbanos que constantemente visitan las comunidades en conflicto de la zona sur que siguen la línea política trazada por la C.A.M. Mi intención por ahora no es más que informarles nuestro pensamiento sobre los horribles sucesos ocurridos el Martes 15 del Pte. en Tirúa y de paso informarles que mañana viernes se realizará una marcha pacífica en protesta por los viciados juicios que han realizado contra los Presos Políticos Mapuche y decirles que se quieren generar espacios de información que desmientan el bajo perfil o el sensacionalismo barato que se le ha dado hasta ahora en los 1/2 de comunicación oficiales a las reivindicaciones del Pueblo-Nación Mapuche organizado. Sin querer quitarles más tiempo por ahora, me despido ¡Marrichiweu!
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
email: LydiaDegarrod@aol.com
description:I would like to join the list of people interested in the Mapuche. I am an anthropologist who has done research on the Mapuche (1981, 1982, 1985-87, 1989) and have several publications. Currently I am writing a book on Mapuche dream narration. I am also a painter and have done paintings of Mapuche dreams to heaven as part of a study on aesthetics. You can see the paintings and dream texts in the website of the Center for LAtin american Center at UC Berkeley: www.clas.berkeley.edu/clas
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Cheryl Natzmer
email: natzmerc@pilot.msu.edu
description: I am a graduate student in socio-cultural anthropology at Michigan State University. I am researching age and gender influences on Mapuche resistance and accomodation. I am especially interested in healing practices, ritual, and folklore and in the creation of new expressive forms at the intersection of cultures.
Armando Navarrete S.M.
email: navarre@globetrotter.qc.ca
description: Mi nombre es Armando Navarrete San Martín, chileno radicado en Montreal, Canada. Estoy a cargo del "Comité de Apoyo al Pueblo Mapuche" con sede en Montreal, y nuestra labor consiste fundamentalmente en el estudio y difusión de la realidad Mapuche, la denuncia de conflictos y la búsqueda de apoyo para nuestros hermanos a través de acciones y campañas.
Jaime Neira
email: jneirar@hotmail.com
descripción: soy médico-cirujano de formación de pregrado, y actualmente trabajo coordinando el programa de salud con población mapuche del Servicio de Salud Araucanía Sur, Temuco-Chile.
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