Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

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.

"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

• 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