1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008606880403321

Autore

Rota, Alessandro

Titolo

I beni demaniali dopo le riforme : proprietà del bene e titolarità della funzione / Alessandro Rota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova : Cedam, c2007

ISBN

978-88-13-27259-3

Descrizione fisica

X, 135 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

342

Locazione

DDA

Collocazione

VI D 1174

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783054103321

Autore

Napolitano Valentina

Titolo

Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men [[electronic resource] ] : living in urban Mexico / / Valentina Napolitano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-92847-4

1-59734-751-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

972/.35

Soggetti

Urban Indians - Mexico - Guadalajara

Rural-urban migration - Mexico - Guadalajara

Guadalajara (Mexico) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.



Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community identity as well as the tensions of modernity and its discontents in Mexican society.