"Standing on the shoulders of previous ethnographers of everyday
life in different Mexicos, Napolitano sees yet farther into the
interstices and intricacies of the quotidian, its social forms, and
how it is experienced and expressed. Just as a glass prism refracts
white light into a spectrum of gradated colors, so is this book a
dazzling refraction of a wide spectrum of feelings, identities, and
social forms in a neighborhood situated between tradition and
modernity, between rural and urban, and between poverty and
affluence."--Michael Kearney, author of "Reconceptualizing the
Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective
"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
"Throughout this theoretically adept ethnography, Valentina
Napolitano explores the embodied experiences of women and men to
highlight their humanity. Covering topics as diverse as Christian
Base Communities and alternative medicine, migration, and growing
up female in Guadalajara, "Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men
provides insights and analysis sure to provoke discussion in
medical anthropology and Latin American studies."--Matthew C.
Gutmann, author of "The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in
Contemporary Mexico.
"By providing rich detail on an 'ordinary' rather than an
'exotic' community in suburban Guadalajara, Napolitano offers a
telling analysis of the transformative impact of urbanization,
internal and international migration,social movement mobilization,
and Liberation Theology on the formation of women's identity at
different life stages."--Judith Adler Hellman, author of "Mexican
Lives
"Richly textured, enlivened, and analytically elegant,
Napolitano's ethnography of the cultural politics of belonging in
Guadalajara weaves a nuanced portrait of vernacular modernities out
of migrant routes rather than essentialist roots. Focusing on
cultural practices that are at once ensouled and embodied, she
fuses phenomenology and political economy to map the materiality of
affect shaping daily lives. Napolitano offers resources of
hope--both for an analytics of emergence enacted through critical
ethnography and for the situated struggles of subalterns whose
structures of feeling she so vividly renders."--Donald S. Moore,
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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