Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEDRO MARTINEZ, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis follows his brilliant tape-recorded pastiche, The Children of Sanchez, with the story of an old Mexican peasant whose passion and native eloquence were spent on aborted uprisings and hopeless land-reform politics...
Paseos & Tortillas. In these two pretty towns on 48-mile-long Lake Chapala, 30 miles south of Guadalajara, some 900 retired men and women from the U.S. are living with-not away from-the Mexicans. The wife of a retired mining engineer may not invite the wife of a Mexican fisherman for tea, but she lives two doors away, she haggles in the same market for the same kind of food, and when they meet on the street, Doña Margarita greets Doña Margaret as a neighbor...
...Americans of Chapala and Ajijic have adopted many Mexican ways as their own. They look forward to the Thursday and Saturday paseo of boys and girls circling the town plaza in opposite directions to look each other over and flirt their way into marriage. They are careful to cover their mouths against the night air "to avoid catching cold," and not to gush over a Mexican baby, out of respect for the Indians' belief that this will give the child the evil eye. They say "This is your home" when guests enter their houses, and they serve frijoles instead...
PEDRO MARTÍNEZ, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis follows his brilliant tape-recorded pastiche, The Children of Sanchez, with the story of an old Mexican peasant whose passion and native eloquence was spent on aborted uprisings and hopeless land-reform politics...
...which indigenous folk tunes were distilled with impressive originality, earned him a reputation for localism that Chávez now frankly deplores. To critics who affect to hear the wind through the mesquite or the flapping of scrapes in everything he writes, he has often protested that "I am Mexican, Beethoven was German -but music is international...