Anthropological essays.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Oscar, 1914-1970
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [1970]
Edition:[First edition].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Controls and experiments in field work
  • Tepoztlán restudied
  • Further observations on the folk-urban continuum and urbanization, with special reference to Mexico City
  • The culture of poverty
  • An anthropological approach to family studies
  • Comparisons in cultural anthropology
  • The effects of white contact upon Blackfoot culture
  • Manly-hearted women among the North Piegan
  • Rural cross section
  • Bumper crops in the desert
  • Plow culture and hoe culture
  • Wealth differences in a Mexican village
  • Family dynamics in a Mexican village
  • Medicine and politics in a Mexican village
  • Group dynamics
  • Caste and the Jajmani system in a North Indian village
  • Peasant culture in India and Mexico
  • Urbanization without breakdown
  • The culture of the Vecindad in Mexico City
  • The possesions of the poor
  • A Thursday with Manuel
  • Visit to a holy shrine
  • "In New York you get swallowed by a horse."--Reminiscences of an aging Puerto Rican
  • Publications of Oscar Lewis (p. [513]-517)