03928nam 22010334a 450 991078305410332120230207223444.00-520-92847-41-59734-751-510.1525/9780520928473(CKB)1000000000005208(EBL)224152(OCoLC)475929910(SSID)ssj0000202866(PQKBManifestationID)11218257(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202866(PQKBWorkID)10255459(PQKB)10693309(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083865(MiAaPQ)EBC224152(DE-B1597)519687(OCoLC)52998605(DE-B1597)9780520928473(Au-PeEL)EBL224152(CaPaEBR)ebr10050807(EXLCZ)99100000000000520820011218d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMigration, mujercitas, and medicine men[electronic resource] living in urban Mexico /Valentina NapolitanoBerkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23318-2 0-520-23319-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.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.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.Urban IndiansMexicoGuadalajaraRural-urban migrationMexicoGuadalajaraGuadalajara (Mexico)Social conditionsanalysis.community.cultural anthropologist.cultural anthropology.daily life.everyday life.fieldwork.gender studies.guadalajara.identity.know yourself.latin america.low income.medicine man.medicine.mexican culture.mexican society.mexico.migration.modernity.neighborhood.personal life.race.racism.real life.realistic.regional.religion.religious studies.selfhood.subjectivity.true story.urban life.urban living.Urban IndiansRural-urban migration972/.35Napolitano Valentina1502418MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783054103321Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men3805259UNINA