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Alberto Beltrán
Tepoztlán, Morelia
These drawings of the life in the nahuatl village of Tepoztlán, were made to illustrate the now classical sociological rural studies by Oscar Lewis: Life in a Mexican Village: Tepoztlán Restudied, (1951); Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty, (1959); The Children of Sánchez, autobiography of a Mexican family, (1961, not illustrated) and Pedro Martinez: A Mexican peasant and his family, (1964).
left above:
On the way
to the corn mill
above right:
Regional type
Granary Wood gathering
Sick woman Grain bin used in house
Making candles Humble type home