Mexican-Americans of South Texas.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Published: 1964
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 112
Table of contents: title: The magic valley. Spanish and Mexican roots -- Anglo development -- The modern economy -- Culture conflict. Plight of the hyphenated citizen -- Spatial and social separateness -- Cultural images -- Decreasing discrimination -- La Raza. World view -- Focal values -- Prescribed behavior -- Proscribed behavior -- Leveling mechanisms -- Immigration and the lower class. The land of opportunity -- Wetbacks -- Braceros -- Earning a living -- The lower-lower class -- The upper-lower class -- Middle and upper classes. The emergent middle class -- The lower-middle class -- The upper-middle class -- The upper class -- The family and society. Family solidarity -- The extended family -- The nuclear family -- Marital conflict -- Parental roles -- Growing up -- Courtship and marriage -- Religion. Interpretations of Catholicism -- Devotion to the saints -- Protestant proselytism -- Motives for conversion -- A case of religious change -- Sickness and health. Supernatural causation -- Pregnancy and childbirth -- Theory of balanced relationships -- Classification of disease -- Childhood diseases -- Fright sicknesses -- Witchcraft. Beliefs -- Identification of witches -- Motivation -- Treatment of bewitchment -- Curers and witches -- Curers and physicians. Divine election of curanderos -- Modernization of curing -- Relationships with curers and doctors -- Objections to modern medicine -- Increasing reliance on physicians -- Folk psychotherapy. Resolution of interpersonal conflicts -- Value conflicts of acculturated patients -- Social outcasting and reacceptance -- Treatment of mental illness -- Education, politics, and progress. The language barrier -- Lack of goal orientation -- Middle-class political movements -- Recommended reading.