03081nam 22006974a 450 991097159540332120250312224629.0978052092847305209284749781597347518159734751510.1525/9780520928473(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(Perlego)552484(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.9780520233188 0520233182 9780520233195 0520233190 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 conditionsUrban IndiansRural-urban migration972/.35Napolitano Valentina1791546MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971595403321Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men4329190UNINA