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082	1		_aLAS 309.172 LEW
100	1		_aLewis, Oscar _d, 1914-1970
245	1	0	_aFive families _b: Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty _c/ Oscar Lewis / with a new introd. by Margaret Mead / foreword by Oliver La Farge
260			_aNew York _b: BasicBooks _c, 1975, c1959
300			_a351 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aThis volume takes the reader into the lives of five different Mexican families for one entire day, so that the reader can see how it is that they live their lives. The families are both rural and urban and represent a cross-section of Mexico at the time that this book was written. All but one of the families portrayed are poor, yet they all share some similar characteristics. Written during the nineteen fifties, this book is, for the most part, a look at a culture of poverty. It is also a look at a culture that is in transition, shifting from rural to urban with its often resulting poverty and pathology. Yet, it is also a culture into which, North American material comforts and influence were making inroads
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aFamily _z-Mexico (State) _x-Case studies
650		4	_aPoverty _z-Mexico (State) _x-Case studies
651		4	_aMexico (State) _x-Social conditions _x-Case studies
700	1		_aMead, Margaret _d, 1901-1978
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