…Fourthly, a feature not only of Mexico but of Latin America as a whole is the influx of indigenous people and mestizo peasants into cities. As a result, the urban underclass is growing year by year, and problems such as the appearance of slums (vecindads and barrios in Mexico City, barriadas in Lima, favelas in Rio de Janeiro, callampas in Chile, ranchos in Venezuela, etc.), unemployment, and low wages are piling up. The lives of these people partly embody what American anthropologist Oscar Lewis calls a “culture of poverty,” and its characteristics include (1) lack of effective participation in institutions, (2) little organization above the nuclear and extended family levels, (3) family characteristics such as lack of childhood, frequent separation of family members, a tendency to be mother-centered, frequent conflicts between brothers and sisters, and (4) fatalism. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "rancho" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…第4にメキシコに限らずラテン・アメリカ全体の特徴として先住民やメスティソ農民の都市への大量流入がある。そのため都市の下層階級は年々増加し,スラムの出現(メキシコ市のベシンダードvecindadやバリオbarrio,リマのバリアーダbarriada,リオ・デ・ジャネイロのファベーラ,チリのカリャンパcallampa,ベネズエラのランチョranchoなど),失業,低賃金と問題が山積している。この人々の生活はアメリカの人類学者ルイスOscar Lewisのいう〈貧困の文化〉を一部は具現しており,その特徴は(1)制度への有効的参加の欠如,(2)核家族と拡大家族レベル以上の組織の少なさ,(3)家族の特徴として,子ども時代の欠如,家族成員の離別の多さ,母親中心の傾向,兄弟・姉妹間の争いの多さ,(4)運命主義,があげられる。… ※「rancho」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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