biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–70)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in New York City, USA. He founded in 1948 the anthropology department at the University of Illinois (Urbana), where he spent his career. His powerful best-selling records of the oral histories of Mexican villagers, Mexican and Puerto Rican slum-dwellers, and the Cuban revolution led to his controversial theory of poverty as a transnational subculture, and brought the poor to widespread public attention. |
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