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Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia

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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 ability 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, that are themselves imbued with shamanic power, and constructed nonlinear histories of intra- and interethnic relations that created a moral order by which Mapuche grow to be history’s spiritual victors.

Thunder Shaman represents an strange collaboration between Francisca Kolipi and anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, who turned into Kolipi’s “granddaughter,” trusted helper, and agent in a mission of historical (re)construction and myth-making. The book describes Francisca’s life, death, and expected rebirth, and shows how she remade history through multitemporal dreams, visions, and spirit possession, drawing on ancestral beings and forest spirits as historical agents to obliterate state ideologies and the colonialist usurpation of indigenous lands. Both an academic text and a strong ritual object intended to be an agent in shamanic history, Thunder Shaman functions concurrently as a shamanic “bible,” embodying Francisca’s power, will, and spirit long after her death in 1996, and an insightful study of shamanic historical consciousness, by which biography, spirituality, politics, ecology, and the past, present, and future are inextricably linked. It demonstrates how shamans are constituted by historical-political and ecological events, at the same time as additionally they actively create history itself through shamanic imaginaries and narrative forms.

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