# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:19.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-lewis"
name: "Oscar Lewis"
slug: "oscar-lewis"
description: "Oscar Lewis, born Lefkowitz was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and his argument that a cross-generational culture of poverty transcends national boundaries. Lewis contended that the cultural similarities occurred because they were \"common adaptations to common problems\" and that \"the culture of poverty is both an adaptation and a reaction of the poor classes to their marginal position in a class-stratified, highly individualistic, capitalistic society.\" \nHe won the 1967 U.S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for La vida: a Puerto Rican family in the culture of poverty--San Juan and New York."
tagline: "American anthropologist (1914–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oscar_Lewis%2C_author%2C_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-12-25"
deathDate: "1970-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Оскар Луис"
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    title: "Oscar Lewis"
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    title: "Oscar Lewis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump