THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MEXICAN FAMILY (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 06000010B43842

English Summary/英文概要： A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published.

It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its members—Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children—as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their extraordinary personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but ultimately tragic portrait that is at once harrowing and humane, mystifying and moving.

An invaluable document, full of verve and pathos, The Children of Sanchez reads like the best of fiction, with the added impact that it is all, undeniably, true.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 知名人類學家Oscar Lewis首創「貧窮文化」理論，為人類學建立新的里程碑，也就此奠定他在此領域屹立不搖的地位。此書為他在墨西哥貧民窟與Sánchez一家人共同生活，記錄家人們的個人觀點，忠實反映當地文化以及生活狀況。
本書的主角及敘述者是Sánchez一家人，有50歲的大家長Jesus，還有他的四個已成年孩子。Oscar Lewis以第一人稱以及平易近人的方式撰寫每段故事，讓讀者更能以同理心深入觀察社會底層貧窮人民的生活。此書章節以家庭成員的名字劃分，忠實記錄每位家庭成員的敘述，並以客觀觀點撰寫此書，完全交由讀者自己去體會及深思。(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：為人類學樹立里程碑，首創「貧窮文化」理論
知名人類學家Oscar Lewis

他以充滿同理心又忠實客觀的第一人稱敘述
如同讀一本小說的精彩紀實錄，為後世留下的經典作品

Rights sold: Polish (Kanonicza)

Reviews
“One of the outstanding contributions of anthropology—of all time.”---Margaret Mead瑪格麗特‧米德，美國人類學家，獲授總統自由勛章

“A significant account of poverty as a culture unto itself. . . . An anthropological classic.”---Los Angeles Times 《洛杉磯時報》

“This book—often brutal, sometimes revolting, but always powerful and compelling in its vivid truth—reveals poverty as the reader could not know it unless he lived it.”---The Washington Post 《華盛頓郵報》

“Extraordinary. . . . Not only a fascinating documentary but a work of art created by reality itself, an edited record of fact that comes closer than most contemporary fiction to the force of literature.”---Time《泰晤士報》

“One of the outstanding contributions of anthropology—of all time.”---Margaret Mead

“Lewis has made something brilliant and of singular significance, a work of such unique concentration and sympathy that one hardly knows how to classify it. It is all, every bit of it except for the introduction, spoken by the members of the Sánchez family. They tell their feeling, their lives, explain their nature, their actual existence with all the force and drama and seriousness of a large novel. . . . The result is a moving, strange tragedy, not an interview, a questionnaire or a sociological study.”---Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Times Book Review

“A significant account of poverty as a culture unto itself. . . . An anthropological classic.”---Los Angeles Times

“This book—often brutal, sometimes revolting, but always powerful and compelling in its vivid truth—reveals poverty as the reader could not know it unless he lived it.”---The Washington Post

“Oscar Lewis’s books on Mexico and Puerto Rico awakened in many of us a feeling that we must do more to alleviate the world’s poverty.”---The Christian Science Monitor

“Panoramic. . . . The Children of Sánchez is an amazing achievement. . . . So exciting, so moving, so full of human warmth and sadness.”---The Spectator

“The exciting thing about The Children of Sánchez, the fact which makes it a new point of departure in its field, is its humanity, its quality of projecting the individual, agonizing voice of the poor as they describe their own plight. This is a real accomplishment, original and full of substance.”---Michael Harrington, Commonweal

“[Lewis’s] masterpiece. . . . Uniquely, for me, his book depicts a world—the society of poverty—which creates its own survival structures and rationale. Its voices are at once warm and cynical, hoping and resigned. To read it is to be forcibly woken from the middle-class dream.”---Colin Thubron, The Sunday Telegraph (London)

About the Author/作者介绍： Oscar Lewis(1914~1970)，美國人類學家，出生於紐約。他在1940年於哥倫比亞大學取得人類學博士學位，取得學位後在布魯克林大學及華盛頓大學教學。1948年開始，他在伊利諾大學創立人類學系，之後終其一生都在伊利諾大學任教。同時他也是美國藝術與科學學院(American Academy of Arts and Sciences)院士，文章經常刊登於學術期刊及大眾期刊。
一趟於1943年到墨西哥的旅行改變了他往後的人生。他對墨西哥農民以及城市居民的生活非常感興趣，並針對此主題撰寫許多書籍。除了此書，還包括《貧窮文化：墨西哥五個家庭一日生活的實錄》(Five Families)、《Life in a Mexican Village》、《Pedro Martinez》、《A Death in the Sanchez Family》以及《La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York》，其中《La Vida》奪得國家圖書獎(National Book Award)，《人類學論文集》(Anthropological Essays)更是集結他頗負盛名的文章。

Oscar Lewis was born in New York City in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1940, and taught at Brooklyn College and Washington University before helping to found the anthropology department at the University of Illinois, where he was a professor from 1948 until his death. From his first visit to Mexico in 1943, Mexican peasants and city dwellers were among his major interests. In addition to The Children of Sanchez, his other studies of Mexican life include Life in a Mexican Village, Five Families, Pedro Martinez, and A Death in the Sanchez Family. He is also the author of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York, which won the National Book Award, and Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba, with his wife, Ruth Maslow Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon. Lewis also published widely in both academic journals and popular periodicals such as Harper’s. Some of his best-known articles were collected in Anthropological Essays (1970). The recipient of many distinguished grants and fellowships, including two Guggenheims, Lewis was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 1970.

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