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Migration, Mujercitas and Medicine Men: Living in Urban Mexico
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posted on 2023-06-07, 16:26 authored by Valentina NapolitanoValentina 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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Publication status
- Published
Publisher
University of California PressPublisher URL
Pages
264.0Place of publication
BerkleyISBN
978-0520233195Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes