La Vida
Oscar Lewis
Oscar
Lewis was born in New York City in 1914, and grew up on a small farm in
upstate New York. He received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia
University in 1940, and taught at Brooklyn College and Washington
University before helping to found the anthropology department at the
University of Illinois, where he was a professor from 1948 until his
death. From his first visit to Mexico in 1943, Mexican peasants and city
dwellers were among his major interests. In addition to The Children of Sanchez, his other studies of Mexican life include Life in a Mexican Village, Five Families, Pedro Martinez, and A Death in the Sanchez Family. He is also the author of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York, which won the National Book Award, and Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba,
with his wife, Ruth Maslow Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon. Lewis also
published widely in both academic journals and popular periodicals such
as Harper’s Magazine. Some of his best-known articles were collected in Anthropological Essays
(1970). The recipient of many distinguished grants and fellowships,
including two Guggenheims, Lewis was a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He died in 1970.
Lewis was born in New York City in 1914, and grew up on a small farm in
upstate New York. He received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia
University in 1940, and taught at Brooklyn College and Washington
University before helping to found the anthropology department at the
University of Illinois, where he was a professor from 1948 until his
death. From his first visit to Mexico in 1943, Mexican peasants and city
dwellers were among his major interests. In addition to The Children of Sanchez, his other studies of Mexican life include Life in a Mexican Village, Five Families, Pedro Martinez, and A Death in the Sanchez Family. He is also the author of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York, which won the National Book Award, and Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba,
with his wife, Ruth Maslow Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon. Lewis also
published widely in both academic journals and popular periodicals such
as Harper’s Magazine. Some of his best-known articles were collected in Anthropological Essays
(1970). The recipient of many distinguished grants and fellowships,
including two Guggenheims, Lewis was a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He died in 1970.
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Year:
1968
Publisher:
Vintage
Language:
english
Pages:
669
ISBN 10:
0394704215
ISBN 13:
9780394704210
File:
PDF, 38.42 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1968
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