Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico /
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| Author / Creator: | Napolitano, Valentina. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. |
| Description: | xvi, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4775837 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520233182 0520233190 |
