Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico /
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.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.