An Anthropological View Of Oscar Lewis’ “the Children Of Sanchez: Autobiography Of A Mexican Family”
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...of a Mexican Family is an emotional story recounting the day to day lives of a lower class Mexican family in Mexico City in the 1960s. Plagued by poverty, the challenges of living in the corrupt and unpredictable environment of one of the worlds largest cities, and just the incredibly fragile relations which occur within a typical family, the Sanchez family walks on tedious grounds in most aspects of their daily lives. Lewis offers an incredibly emotional account of the horrors they face as well as commendable detail in accounting for those horrors from a human interest perspective. As such the book offers support to a variety of disciplines, not the least of which is anthropology. Although The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family is lacking in the type of scientific data which characterizes a true anthropological study, it is a useful addition to such a study in that it offers first-person observations on a people and the conditions which shape them. Lewis definitively...
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