Anthropological essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Oscar, 1914-1970.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 523 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1970]

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

83484