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9780520233195

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520233195

  • ISBN10:

    0520233190

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This intriguing ethnography explores migration and gender in Mexico's second-largest city. It will become a classic in urban Latin American studies and will engender important discussion for further research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities
Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition
Migration, Space, and Belonging
Religious Discourses and 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 Epilogue
Homeopathic Principles
Trees of Life and Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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