| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods in transition -- Migration, space, and belonging -- Religious discourses and the politics of modernity -- Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa -- Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses -- Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced: gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance. |
| Summary |
Exploring issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender, this work analyses everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Velentina Napolitano paints a vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban Indians -- Mexico -- Guadalajara.
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Rural-urban migration -- Mexico -- Guadalajara.
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Rural-urban migration. |
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Mexico -- Guadalajara. |
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Guadalajara (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Napolitano, Valentina. Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520233182 0520233190 (DLC) 2001008310 (OCoLC)48655909 |
| ISBN |
9780520928473 (electronic book) |
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0520928474 (electronic book) |
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0585468478 (electronic book) |
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9780585468471 (electronic book) |
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1597347515 |
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9781597347518 |
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0520233182 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520233190 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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