Anthropological essays

New York, Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 523 pages; Stated 1st Edition. xvii, 523 p. illus., maps. 25 cm. Subjects: Ethnology -- Anthropology -- Essays. Contents: Controls and experiments in field work. --Tepoztlan 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 possessions 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.