ANTH 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnography, Class Consciousness, Oscar Lewis
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Agustin husband, father, mistress on the side (sneaks away while he is supposed to be working his bus routes; is able to pull this affair of because of his mobility) Hector; there is an accusation that he is gay and his dad kicked him out and they do not have a very good relationship. Don"t make use of formal banking (informal credit and banking) pay day loans. Very poor family (poorest family in the book) Julia she is out making money as well as keeping the house in charge. The one thing about mesoamerican is to say you have indian blood instead of spanish blood is said to darken you . To be spanish is about being upper class and being able to speak spanish. The family is interesting because of the numerous different things that they do in order to get money.
