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Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men [electronic resource] : living in urban Mexico / Valentina Napolitano.

By: Napolitano, Valentina.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002Description: xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Indians of Mexico -- Urban residence -- Mexico -- Guadalajara | Rural-urban migration -- Mexico -- Guadalajara | Guadalajara (Mexico) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 972/.35 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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.

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