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OSCAR LEWIS'S
FIVE FAMILIES,
LIKE HIS 1967 NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD WINNER
LA VIDA,
probes the culture of poverty. This time the au-
thor focuses on the daily life of the men, woman,
and children of five Mexican families. His book
is a warm portrait of human beings; at the same
time it is a well-documented and authoritative
presentation of a culture explosively in flux
FIVE FAMILIES presents a cross-section of
Mexico today. The author takes the reader into
the homes and into the minds of the members of
families in a small peasant village in the country,
a slum tenement in Mexico City, a new working-
class housing development, and an upper-class
residential district.
"Fascinating in the intimacy of its research into
family life, terrifying in its revelation of the cul-
tural desolation that follows 'Westenization' of
underdeveloped countries, and perhaps epoch-
making for its new approach to ethnology An
astonishing performance .The reader will have
to read it...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
OSCAR LEWIS'S
FIVE FAMILIES,
LIKE HIS 1967 NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD WINNER
LA VIDA,
probes the culture of poverty. This time the au-
thor focuses on the daily life of the men, woman,
and children of five Mexican families. His book
is a warm portrait of human beings; at the same
time it is a well-documented and authoritative
presentation of a culture explosively in flux
FIVE FAMILIES presents a cross-section of
Mexico today. The author takes the reader into
the homes and into the minds of the members of
families in a small peasant village in the country,
a slum tenement in Mexico City, a new working-
class housing development, and an upper-class
residential district.
"Fascinating in the intimacy of its research into
family life, terrifying in its revelation of the cul-
tural desolation that follows 'Westenization' of
underdeveloped countries, and perhaps epoch-
making for its new approach to ethnology An
astonishing performance .The reader will have
to read it all to see that Oliver La Farge is not
exaggerating in his Foreword when he calls the
Castros 'a family to dismay Chekhov, to stand
Zola's hair on end.' "
—Selden Rodman, THE SATURDAY REVIEW
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