Book
Living in La Fabrica: environment, opinion, and strategies for survival among low income Mexican-Americans in Laredo, Texas
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: McKee, Nancy Patricia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book provides a vivid portrait of daily life and popular opinion in a low-income barrio of Chicanos living in Laredo, Texas, a predominantly Mexican-American city located on the U.S. - Mexican border. Through the use of questionnaires, the author gathered information on a wide variety of issues concerning Chicano, but concluded that such a procedure is not the best method for ethnographers. Her material on the life histories of key informants, patterns of commerce and domestic consumption, religion, and employment are used to question theories of 'the culture of poverty.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Reviews and critiques
- History
- Identification
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Ethnosociology
- Kin relationships
- Family relationships
- General character of religion
- Informants
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Barrio of La Fabrica, Laredo, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Washington State University, Pullman, 1985
- UM8527146
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans