Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Napolitano, Valentina.

Title Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men [electronic resource] : living in urban Mexico / Valentina Napolitano.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 240 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Urban residence -- Mexico -- Guadalajara.
Rural-urban migration -- Mexico -- Guadalajara.
Guadalajara (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0520233182 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520233190 (paper : alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only