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Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico
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Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico

Author: Valentina Napolitano
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. It explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender. It paints a picture of daily life in a low-income  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Valentina Napolitano
ISBN: 0520233182 9780520233188 0520233190 9780520233195
OCLC Number: 48655909
Description: xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods "in transition" --
2. Migration, space, and belonging --
3. Religious discourses and politics of modernity --
4. Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa --
5. Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses --
6. "Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced": gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance.
Responsibility: Valentina Napolitano.
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"The ethnographic result of Napolitano's work is splendid-it gives one the fascinating sensation of zooming back and forth between intimate real time conversations with the people of Polanco and a Read more...

 
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