The possessions of the poor.
The possessions of the poor.
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穷人的财产。
DOI：
10.1038/scientificamerican1069-114
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发表时间：
1969
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
O. Lewis
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作者：
O. Lewis
在我的研究中，这一点也很重要，因为墨西哥城没有公共福利制度。）贫困家庭如何为他们的购买提供资金？他们在哪里购物？他们的选择范围有多广？他们财产的物质条件是什么？他们能坚持多久？我能够获得关于所有这些问题的相当详细的信息。我研究的场景是一个小vecindad（公寓），墨西哥城最贫穷的地方之一，住着14个家庭，共83人（平均每个家庭约6人）。该公寓由一排14间无窗的一室公寓组成，这些公寓由土坯砖建造，并覆盖着水泥屋顶，将它们连接在一起。每个公寓都有一个小入口，屋顶是用焦油纸或金属做的，门很低，人们必须弯腰才能进去。这些入口也用作厨房。一条粗糙的石板路与这排公寓平行，这条石板路是房客们为了对付泥浆而铺的，上面堆满了洗衣盆、水桶、夜壶和准备在阳光下晒干的物品。柴火，上面都是啊！和麻袋或纸板片，被存放在屋顶上。一些在家里做生意的房客在他们的公寓前面建了一个脆弱的棚子作为车间;棚子用来存放成堆的材料和工具。院子里有一个很大的水泥水槽，供所有的房客洗碗、洗衣服和给孩子洗澡。院子后面有两个公共厕所，破旧的土坯结构，挂着破碎的粗麻布。晾衣绳挂在分叉的杆子上，在院子里纵横交错，地上散落着石头，孩子们挖的洞坑坑洼洼。在白天-
enter into the picture in my study, as there was no public welfare system in Mexico City.) How do families in pov erty finance their purchases? Where do they do their shopping? How wide are their choices? What is the physical con dition of their possessions? How long do they manage to hold on to them? I was able to obtain rather detailed informa tion on all these matters.The scene of my study was a small vecindad (tenement), one of the poor est in Mexico City, that housed 14 fam ilies totaling 83 people (an average of about six persons per family). The tene ment consisted of a row of 14 window less one-room apartments built of adobe brick and covered with a cement roof that joined them all together. Each apartment had a small entranceway with a makeshift roof of tar paper or metal and a door so low that one had to stoop to enter. These entrances also served as kitchens. A walk of rough stone slabs laid by the tenants to combat the mud ran parallel to the row of apartments and was cluttered with laundry tubs, pails, chamber pots and articles set out to dry in the sun. Firewood, covered with o! d gunnysacks or pieces of cardboard, was stored on the roof. Some of the tenants, who plied their trade at home, had built flimsy sheds as workshops against the front of their apartment; the sheds were used to store piles of materials and tools. In the yard was a large cement wa ter trough that served all the tenants for washing dishes and laundry and for bathing children. Toward the back of the yard there were two common toilets, dilapidated adobe structures curtained with pieces of torn burlap. Clotheslines strung on forked poles crisscrossed the yard, and the ground was strewn with rocks and pitted with holes dug by the children. In the day-