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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities
Chapter 1: Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods
in Transition
Chapter 2: Migration, Space, and Belonging
Chapter 3: Religious Discourses and Politics of Modernity
Chapter 4: Medical Pluralism: Medicina Popular and Medicina Alternativa
Chapter 5: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses
Chapter 6: Neither Married, Widowed, Single, or Divorced: Gender Negotiation, Compliance, and Resistance
Epilogue
Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles
Appendix B: Trees of Life and Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Valentina Napolitano is a Research Officer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge.
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