Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico
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Main Author: Napolitano, Valentina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index
Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods in transition -- - Migration, space, and belonging -- - Religious discourses and the politics of modernity -- - Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa -- - Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses -- - Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced: gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance
Exploring issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender, this work analyses everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Velentina Napolitano paints a vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 240 pages)
ISBN:0520928474
0585468478
9780520928473
9780585468471

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