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

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

Valentina Napolitano

University of California Press, c2002

  • : cloth
  • : paper

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Bibliography: p. 217-235

Includes index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780520233188

内容説明

Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara. "Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men" portrays the personal experiences of the neighbourhood'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.

目次

Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities Chapter 1: Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition Chapter 2: Migration, Space, and Belonging Chapter 3: Religious Discourses and Politics of Modernity Chapter 4: Medical Pluralism: Medicina Popular and Medicina Alternativa Chapter 5: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses Chapter 6: Neither Married, Widowed, Single, or Divorced: Gender Negotiation, Compliance, and Resistance Epilogue Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles Appendix B: Trees of Life and Death
巻冊次

: paper ISBN 9780520233195

内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities Chapter 1: Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition Chapter 2: Migration, Space, and Belonging Chapter 3: Religious Discourses and Politics of Modernity Chapter 4: Medical Pluralism: Medicina Popular and Medicina Alternativa Chapter 5: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses Chapter 6: Neither Married, Widowed, Single, or Divorced: Gender Negotiation, Compliance, and Resistance Epilogue Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles Appendix B: Trees of Life and Death Notes Bibliography Index

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