Napolitano, Valentina.

Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men living in urban Mexico / [electronic resource] : Valentina Napolitano. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. - xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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2009.
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Indians of Mexico--Urban residence--Mexico--Guadalajara.
Rural-urban migration--Mexico--Guadalajara.


Guadalajara (Mexico)--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

F1219.1.G86 / N66 2002eb

972/.35