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Show 123 Palerm, Angel. "Antropologia aplicada y desarrollo de la comunidad," Anuario Indigenista, XXIX, (December, 1969), pp. 153-161. English Summary: Anthropology has come to be considered, perhaps somewhat exaggerated, as a threat in these times of manipulation. Certainly there is an anthropology serving forms of exploitation and aggression, but there is also another honorable anthropology that began with Platon and continues in our times with Kenyatta. These opposing currents, that might be called the platonic and the caesarist, influence the philosophy of the pace of community development. This, more often than not^ is presented to us as a pseudo-ideology that attempts to substitute or eliminate the structural changes with reform programs that view the community as being isolated from its regional and national context. All of which makes obvious the necessity for examining community development at the level of doctrine as well as at the level of techniques being used. 1970 Lewis, Oscar. "La cultura material de los pobres," America Indigena, XXX, No. 4 (October, 1970), pp. 945-991. English Summary: Every one recognizes poverty when they see it, but few know exactly what it is. Generally, poverty is defined in terms of income, but that is not an exact definition. Poverty means an inability to satisfy the desires or material necessities (however they may be defined culturally); but every poor person possesses at least some material goods, and the author of this article thinks it might be interesting and useful to examine such possessions in the hope of arriving at new points of view with respect to the nature of poverty and the life of the poor. Such an examination suggests some questions concerning the material culture of the poor. For example, how long do the poor keep their belongings? How much movement of possessions is there? What proportion of material goods do they buy new or used? What part do they receive as gifts and what part do they buy? Do the belongings of the poor come from nearby markets and stores? From street vendors or from their same poor neighborhood? What type of monetary arrangement do they utilize, etc.? Considering that the answers to these and other questions can reveal much about a persons way of life, both materially and socially, the author attempted to answer them by investigating 14 families residing- in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Mexico City. To do so he used a series of inventories, applied like a poll, and indicates that the data so obtained confirm the general findings |