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Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (review)

This book is an analysis of shamanism through an auto-ethnography of Francisca Kolipi, a Mapuche healer from Araucania in central Chile. In a society ruled by men, Kolipi was a powerful and independent woman. The author first met the Mapuche as a child in Rio Negro, in Argentine Patagonia, where they traveled for seasonal work. With a degree in anthropology from UCLA, Bacigalupo is currently a professor of anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and author of Shamans of the Foye Tree and La voz de Kultrun en la modernidad. This new book combines biography, history, politics, religion, and ecology to explore how the Mapuche employ history, present and future, to counter outside threats. This book is a welcome addition to Indigenous History and Latin American Studies and will be very useful to scholars and graduate students in Anthropology.