Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico / Valentina Napolitano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Napolitano, Valentina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban Indigenous peoples--Mexico--Guadalajara.

Urban Indigenous peoples.

Rural-urban migration--Mexico--Guadalajara.

Rural-urban migration.

Guadalajara (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Guadalajara (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520928473

0520928474

9781597347518

1597347515

OCLC:

475929910