Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 240 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520233190
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0520233182
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities; 1 Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition; 2 Migration, Space, and Belonging; 3 Religious Discourses and the 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; Epilogue; Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520233195
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men : Living in Urban Mexico
Language:
English
