How long does it take to read Five Families; Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty?
Oscar Lewis, Oscar Lewis (anthropologist)
Five Families; Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty by Oscar Lewis, Oscar Lewis (anthropologist) takes about 6 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 351 pages, about 96,525 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live.
Subjects: Social conditions, Case studies, Family, Cas, Études de, Families, Conditions sociales
