Anthropological essays / Oscar Lewis.

Includes bibliographies.

Controls and experiments in field work.--Tepoztl an 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)