Word: vecindad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez is the story of a family of live slum dwellers in modern Mexico City. Oscar Lewis, a University of Illinois anthropologist who has devoted most of his career to Latin America, met the Sanchez family in 1956 during a study of Mexico City's Casa Grande vecindad (tenement). He took a preliminary look at them in a 1959 book describing a day in the lives of Five Families, concluded that the Sánchez clan was typical of much in Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told by the Sánchez...
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