02981nam 22006374a 450 991080683890332120200520144314.00-520-92847-41-59734-751-510.1525/9780520928473(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 living in urban Mexico /Valentina Napolitano1st ed.Berkeley 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.Indians of MexicoUrban residenceMexicoGuadalajaraRural-urban migrationMexicoGuadalajaraGuadalajara (Mexico)Social conditionsIndians of MexicoUrban residenceRural-urban migration972/.35Napolitano Valentina1676043MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806838903321Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men4041945UNINA