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Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Living in Urban Mexico

Valentina Napolitano author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:13th Dec '02

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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.

"The ethnographic result of Napolitano's work is splendid-it gives one the fascinating sensation of zooming back and forth between intimate real time conversations with the people of Polanco and a wide angle view of the city and the region through recent history."-Chris Kiefer, author of Health Work with the Poor

ISBN: 9780520233195

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 363g

256 pages