Sleeping rough in Port-au-Prince : an ethnography of street children and violence in Haiti /

In this ethnographic analysis of the cultural lives of children who are "sleeping rough" in Port-au-Prince, Kovats-Bernat expands the traditional bounds of anthropological thought, which have only recently permitted a scholarly treatment of "the child" as a valuable informant, re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Temas:
Street children > Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Sociology, Urban > Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Enfants de la rue > Haïti > Port-au-Prince.
Sociologie urbaine > Haïti > Port-au-Prince.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Street children.
Kinderen.
Thuislozen.
Geweld.
Enfants de la rue > Haïti > Port-au-Prince (Haïti)
Sociologie urbaine > Haïti > Port-au-Prince (Haïti)
Port-au-Prince (Haiti) > Social conditions.
Port-au-Prince (Haïti) > Conditions sociales.
Haiti > Port-au-Prince.
Haïti.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In this ethnographic analysis of the cultural lives of children who are "sleeping rough" in Port-au-Prince, Kovats-Bernat expands the traditional bounds of anthropological thought, which have only recently permitted a scholarly treatment of "the child" as a valuable informant, relevant witness, and active agent of social change. Refuting the commonplace notion that street children are unsocialized, Hobbesian mongrels, the author finds these children adopt strategies to carve a social and cultural space for themselves on the contested streets of Port-au-Prince, individually
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
ISBN:9780813040011
0813040019

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