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...first time in its short (about 50 years) history, anthropology has produced a book that will become a commercial motion picture, and probably a great one. As this indicates, The Children of Sanchez is far closer in spirit and content to an unfinished epic novel. But for the fact that Mr. Lewis used conventional social science techniques -- tape-recording interviews in the setting of another culture, editing them, and publishing them -- this volume would have no claim to being anthropology at all. By allowing the Sanchez family to literally speak for itself, Mr. Lewis has given us a document whose...
What happens when one begins Children of Sanchez thinking, "Ho-hum, another anthropologist," is that after about five pages, one forgets all about concepts, and avidly enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...
...CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ, by Oscar Lewis. From an unlikely source-tape-recorded interviews with five Mexico City slum dwellers-comes a work of pathos and drama. The language is fierce, rich and foul, and the folkways might startle even a resident of Tortilla Flat...
Simple choral arrangements led to triteness: in Sanchez Malaya's Pues Bien Yo Necesito, a movingly bitter solo jarred badly with a sleepy, hummed background. The same happened in The Beggar's Opera songs when several jaunty soloists livened up the bland arrangement of an essentially impersonal chorus. Hearing a full chorus all evening robs music of its feeling because the tone colors and textures are so limited. Too many, groups sound like the imaginative Wiffenpoofs. Glee clubs must use smaller ensembles if they are to be more expressive...
...Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. An extraordinary and moving documentary, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love...