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Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men living in urban Mexico

Title
Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men [electronic resource] : living in urban Mexico / Valentina Napolitano.
Author
Napolitano, Valentina.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Description
1 online resource (xvi, 240 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men (Online)
Alternative Title
Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men (Online)
Subject
  • Urban Indians > Mexico > Guadalajara
  • Rural-urban migration > Mexico > Guadalajara
  • Guadalajara (Mexico) > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
ISBN
  • 0520233182 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520233190 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001008310
OCLC
ssj0000202866
Author
Napolitano, Valentina.
Title
Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men [electronic resource] : living in urban Mexico / Valentina Napolitano.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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