Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Napolitano, Valentina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Subjects:	Indians of Mexico > Urban residence > Mexico > Guadalajara. Rural-urban migration > Mexico > Guadalajara. Guadalajara (Mexico) > Social conditions.

Table of 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.